# Spherical cap mesh

**URL:** <https://community.freefem.org/t/spherical-cap-mesh/115>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [August 25, 2019, 9:48am UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/spherical-cap-mesh/115 "2019-08-25T09:48:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![paolopiers](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.freefem.org/paolopiers/32/48_2.png) [@paolopiers](https://community.freefem.org/u/paolopiers)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2019, 9:48am UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/spherical-cap-mesh/115/1 "2019-08-25T09:48:51Z")

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Hello, I would like to ask you if you could tell me how to generate a mesh representing a spherical cap in FreeFem++.

Thanks in advance.

Paolo

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**Author:** ![frederichecht](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.freefem.org/frederichecht/32/15_2.png) [@frederichecht](https://community.freefem.org/u/frederichecht)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 6:31am UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/spherical-cap-mesh/115/2 "2019-08-27T06:31:57Z")

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you can start from example [https://github.com/FreeFem/FreeFem-sources/blob/master/examples/3d/sphere2.edp](https://github.com/FreeFem/FreeFem-sources/blob/master/examples/3d/sphere2.edp)

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**Author:** ![paolopiers](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.freefem.org/paolopiers/32/48_2.png) [@paolopiers](https://community.freefem.org/u/paolopiers)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 11:55am UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/spherical-cap-mesh/115/3 "2019-08-27T11:55:40Z")

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Thank you very much Professor Hecht!