Triangulated surfaces with plotly in R

Posted on August 16, 2018 by Stéphane Laurent
Tags: R, graphics, plotly

The plotly package for R has a type mesh3d allowing to draw triangulated surfaces. We will give some examples.

From a mesh3d object: icosahedron example

Drawing a parametric surface : cyclide example

We can add some colors:

Drawing an isosurface: cyclide again

I like cyclides…