# Circumference and sphere with latex

I have big troubles trying to draw the next picture in latex, could you help me? I´m desperate, it´s for my bachelor thesis...

The idea is to make a nice picture of the circumference´s decomposition following the last photo.

I need the same thing but this time with the sphere :

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You can play with polar coordinates and arc to get the circle sectors.

\documentclass[border=5mm]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[very thick]
\newcommand\angStart{30}
\draw (0,0) circle (1);
\draw[cyan] (180+\angStart:1.1) arc (180+\angStart:-\angStart:1.1);
\draw[black!30!green] (180-\angStart:1.2) arc (180-\angStart:360+\angStart:1.2);
\draw[orange] (180-\angStart:1.3) arc (180-\angStart:180+\angStart:1.3);
\draw[black!30!orange] (-\angStart:1.3) arc (-\angStart:+\angStart:1.3);
\node[cyan,right] at (180:1){\textsf{U1}};
\node[black!30!green,left] at (0:1){\textsf{U2}};
\node[orange,left] at (180:1.3){\textsf{W1}};
\node[black!30!orange,right] at (0:1.3){\textsf{W2}};
\end{tikzpicture}

\begin{tikzpicture}[very thick, line join=round]
\newcommand\angStart{30}
\newcommand\zfactor{0.25}
\draw (0,0) circle (1);
\draw[dashed] (0:1) arc (0:180:1 and 1*\zfactor);\draw (180:1) arc (180:360:1 and 1*\zfactor);
%%
\draw[gray,dashed] (0:1.2) arc (0:180:1.2 and 1.2*\zfactor);
\fill[fill=cyan,opacity=0.4] (-\angStart:1.2) arc (-\angStart:180+\angStart:1.2)
arc (180+3:360-3:{1.2*cos(\angStart)} and {1.2*\zfactor*cos(\angStart)}) -- cycle;
\draw[gray] (180:1.2) arc (180:360:1.2 and 1.2*\zfactor);
\draw[gray] (-\angStart:1.2) arc (-\angStart:180+\angStart:1.2)
arc (180+3:360-3:{1.2*cos(\angStart)} and {1.2*\zfactor*cos(\angStart)}) -- cycle;
%%
\draw[dashed] (0:1.4) arc (0:180:1.4 and 1.4*\zfactor);
\fill[black!30!green,opacity=0.4] (180-\angStart:1.4) arc (180-\angStart:360+\angStart:1.4)
arc (-3:-180+3:{1.4*cos(\angStart)} and {1.4*\zfactor*cos(\angStart)}) -- cycle;
\draw (180:1.4) arc (180:360:1.4 and 1.4*\zfactor);
\draw[] (180-\angStart:1.4) arc (180-\angStart:360+\angStart:1.4)
arc (-3:-180+3:{1.4*cos(\angStart)} and {1.4*\zfactor*cos(\angStart)}) -- cycle;
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}


• I tried the following: – matemagreek Jul 4 '17 at 20:40