hatch the overlap region of 3 circles

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sahar
sahar on 9 Jun 2017
Answered: sahar on 10 Jun 2017
I like to know how to hatch the overlap of 3 circles with 3 intersection points?

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sahar
sahar on 10 Jun 2017
the attached code can be used to hatch the overlap of three circles with three intersection points

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KSSV
KSSV on 9 Jun 2017
N1 = 100 ; N2 = 50 ;
th = linspace(0,2*pi,N1)' ;
r1 = 1. ; r2 = 1. ; r3 = 1. ;% radii of circles
c1 = [0 0] ; % center of first cirlce
c2 = [1.5 0] ; % center of second circle
c3 = [0.75 0.5] ;
a1 = repmat(c1,[N1 1])+[r1*cos(th) r1*sin(th)] ;
a2 = repmat(c2,[N1 1])+[r2*cos(th) r2*sin(th)] ;
a3 = repmat(c3,[N1 1])+[r3*cos(th) r3*sin(th)] ;
%
plot(a1(:,1),a1(:,2),'r') ;
hold on
plot(a2(:,1),a2(:,2),'r') ;
plot(a3(:,1),a3(:,2),'r') ;
axis equal
%%Get points of 1 circle lying in 2 circle
in12 = inpolygon(a1(:,1),a1(:,2),a2(:,1),a2(:,2)) ;
P1 = a1(in12,:) ;
% Get points of second circle lying in first circle
in21 = inpolygon(a2(:,1),a2(:,2),a1(:,1),a1(:,2)) ;
P2 = a2(in21,:) ;
% form the oval / intersection boundary
R = [P1 ;P2] ;
idx = convhull(R(:,1),R(:,2)) ;
patch(R(idx,1),R(idx,2),'r')
%%Get points of 1 circle lying in 3 circle
in13 = inpolygon(a1(:,1),a1(:,2),a3(:,1),a3(:,2)) ;
P1 = a1(in13,:) ;
% Get points of 3 circle lying in 1 circle
in31 = inpolygon(a3(:,1),a3(:,2),a1(:,1),a1(:,2)) ;
P2 = a3(in31,:) ;
% form the oval / intersection boundary
R = [P1 ;P2] ;
idx = convhull(R(:,1),R(:,2)) ;
patch(R(idx,1),R(idx,2),'r')
%%Get points of 2 circle lying in 3 circle
in23 = inpolygon(a2(:,1),a2(:,2),a3(:,1),a3(:,2)) ;
P1 = a2(in23,:) ;
% Get points of 3 circle lying in 2 circle
in32 = inpolygon(a3(:,1),a3(:,2),a2(:,1),a2(:,2)) ;
P2 = a3(in32,:) ;
% form the oval / intersection boundary
R = [P1 ;P2] ;
idx = convhull(R(:,1),R(:,2)) ;
patch(R(idx,1),R(idx,2),'r')
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sahar
sahar on 10 Jun 2017
Dear KSSV unfortunately, this code does not work correctly. it hatches more than overlap of three circles. I attached the result

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