MATLAB: Extract surface coordinates from ellipsoid function

Question

Hi

I'm trying to model a rotating ellipsoid and extract the line-of-sight velocity from specific points on the surface.

Ive created an ellipse using the ellipsoid() function. I now need to extract the XYZ values of specified points on the surface. the [x, y, z] returned by ellipsoid() are in a square matrix however rather than an nx3 set of points which is what I need.

Answer 1

Hi LW,

After you get x,y, and z, try

A = [x(:),y(:),z(:)]