helicoid {KODAMA}

Helicoid Data Set Generator

Description

This function creates a data set based upon data points distributed on a Helicoid surface.

Usage

helicoid(N=1000)

Arguments

N

Number of data points.

Value

The function returns a three dimensional data set.

Author(s)

Stefano Cacciatore and Leonardo Tenori

References

Cacciatore S, Luchinat C, Tenori L
Knowledge discovery by accuracy maximization.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2014;111(14):5117-22. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1220873111. Link

Cacciatore S, Tenori L, Luchinat C, Bennett PR, MacIntyre DA
KODAMA: an updated R package for knowledge discovery and data mining.
Bioinformatics 2017;33(4):621-623. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btw705. Link

See Also

swissroll,dinisurface,spirals

Examples

require("rgl")
x=helicoid()
open3d()
plot3d(x, col=rainbow(1000),box=FALSE,size=3)