Lesson 28 Triangle Normal

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Started by maledivius December 23, 2010 10:10 PM

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maledivius

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December 23, 2010 10:10 PM

I want to calculate normals but i don't know how to get points from this function.

// Generates a display list based on the data in the patch// and the number of divisionsGLuint genBezier(BEZIER_PATCH patch, int divs) {	int			u = 0, v;	float		py, px, pyold; 	GLuint		drawlist = glGenLists(1);			POINT_3D	temp[4];	POINT_3D	*last = (POINT_3D*)malloc(sizeof(POINT_3D)*(divs+1));												// array of points to mark the first line of polys	if (patch.dlBPatch != 0)							glDeleteLists(patch.dlBPatch, 1);	temp[0] = patch.anchors[0][3];					temp[1] = patch.anchors[1][3];	temp[2] = patch.anchors[2][3];	temp[3] = patch.anchors[3][3];	for (v=0;v&lt;=divs;v++) {								px = ((float)v)/((float)divs);					last[v] = Bernstein(px, temp);	}	glNewList(drawlist, GL_COMPILE);					glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, patch.texture);		for (u=1;u&lt;=divs;u++) {		py	  = ((float)u)/((float)divs);					pyold = ((float)u-1.0f)/((float)divs);				temp[0] = Bernstein(py, patch.anchors[0]);			temp[1] = Bernstein(py, patch.anchors[1]);		temp[2] = Bernstein(py, patch.anchors[2]);		temp[3] = Bernstein(py, patch.anchors[3]);		glBegin(GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP);							for (v=0;v&lt;=divs;v++) {			px = ((float)v)/((float)divs);						glTexCoord2f(pyold, px);							glVertex3d(last[v].x, last[v].y, last[v].z);				last[v] = Bernstein(px, temp);						glTexCoord2f(py, px);								glVertex3d(last[v].x, last[v].y, last[v].z);			}		glEnd();										}		glEndList();									free(last);										return drawlist;							}

The "last" array keeps the previous line of points

for (v=0;v&lt;=divs;v++) {			px = ((float)v)/((float)divs);						glTexCoord2f(pyold, px);							glVertex3d(last[v].x, last[v].y, last[v].z);				last[v] = Bernstein(px, temp);						glTexCoord2f(py, px);								glVertex3d(last[v].x, last[v].y, last[v].z);

so i need to save last[0] and last[1] in some temporary points and then take last[0] from second loop (for v=1)?

EDIT: put code in [ source lang="cpp"] [ /source] tags (without the space after [).

[Edited by - Caste on December 29, 2010 4:05:20 AM]

Caste

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December 29, 2010 04:12 AM

As you said yourself, the last array stores the recently used points.
You could fill this array (with Bernstein()) before adding the 3 vertices to your GL triangle strip. Then use the last 3 vertices (let's call them a,b,c) to compute the normal with the cross product: (a-b)x(a-c).

Nevertheless, this only gives you per-face normals. If you want a smoothly shaded surface, you need to average the normals of all faces adjacent to a single vertex. This only makes sense as a preprocessing step as it requires you to compute and iterate over all faces several times - or reordering them by sorting.

Hope that helps :)

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maledivius

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January 12, 2011 11:37 AM

Thanks for your reply!

I did this by adding some arrays and vectors for calculs.


 GLfloat ra[3][99]; //for old vertices
 GLfloat rb[3][99]; // for new vertices
 GLfloat rn[3][99]; //for normals


 GLfloat vn1[3];
 GLfloat vn2[3];


 GLfloat out1[3];

I also needed to change loop for triangle strip.
So now it looks like this:


 for (v=0;v<=divs;v++) {
 px = ((float)v)/((float)divs); 

 glVertex3d(last[v].x, last[v].y, last[v].z); 
 ra[0][v]=last[v].x;
 ra[1][v]=last[v].y;
 ra[2][v]=last[v].z;

 last[v] = Bernstein(px, temp); 
 glVertex3d(last[v].x, last[v].y, last[v].z); 
 rb[0][v]=last[v].x;
 rb[1][v]=last[v].y;
 rb[2][v]=last[v].z;

 }

 for (v=0;v<=divs;v++) {
 px = ((float)v)/((float)divs); 

 vn1[0]=ra[0][v+1]-ra[0][v];
 vn1[1]=ra[1][v+1]-ra[1][v];
 vn1[2]=ra[2][v+1]-ra[2][v];

 vn2[0]=rb[0][v]-ra[0][v];
 vn2[1]=rb[1][v]-ra[1][v];
 vn2[2]=rb[2][v]-ra[2][v];

 rn[0][v]=-vn1[1]*vn2[2] + vn1[2]*vn2[1];
 rn[1][v]=-vn1[2]*vn2[0] + vn1[0]*vn2[2];
 rn[2][v]=-vn1[0]*vn2[1] + vn1[1]*vn2[0];

 }

 glBegin(GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP); 

 for (v=0;v<=divs;v++) {
 px = ((float)v)/((float)divs); 
 out1[0]=rn[0][v];
 out1[1]=rn[1][v];
 out1[2]=rn[2][v];
 glTexCoord2f(pyold, px); 
 glNormal3fv(out1);
 glVertex3d(ra[0][v], ra[1][v], ra[2][v]); 


 glTexCoord2f(py, px); 

 glVertex3d(rb[0][v], rb[1][v], rb[2][v]); 
 }

I know these are only per-face normnals but when I increase div it's looking good for me.

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