Rvcg (version 0.9)

vcgClost: Project coordinates onto a target triangular surface mesh.

Description

For a set of 3D-coordinates/triangular mesh, the closest matches on a target surface are determined and normals at as well as distances to that point are calculated.

Usage

vcgClost(x, mesh, sign = TRUE, barycentric = FALSE, smoothNormals = FALSE,
  borderchk = FALSE)

Arguments

x

k x 3 matrix containing 3D-coordinates or object of class "mesh3d".

mesh

triangular surface mesh stored as object of class "mesh3d".

sign

logical: if TRUE, signed distances are returned.

barycentric

logical: if TRUE, barycentric coordinates of the hit points are returned.

smoothNormals

logical: if TRUE, laplacian smoothed normals are used.

borderchk

logical: request checking if the hit face is at the border of the mesh.

Value

• returns an object of class "mesh3d" with:
• vb
  4 x n matrix containing n vertices as homolougous coordinates.
• normals
  4 x n matrix containing vertex normals.
• quality
  numeric vector containing distances to target.
• it
  3 x m integer matrix containing vertex indices forming triangular faces.Only available, when x is a mesh.
• border
  integer vector of length n: if borderchk = TRUE, for each clostest point the value will be 1 if the hit face is at the border of the target mesh and 0 otherwise.
• barycoords
  3 x m Matrix containing barycentric coordinates of closest points; only available if barycentric=TRUE.

References

Baerentzen, Jakob Andreas. & Aanaes, H., 2002. Generating Signed Distance Fields From Triangle Meshes. Informatics and Mathematical Modelling.

See Also

vcgPlyRead

Examples

data(humface)
clost <- vcgClost(humface.lm, humface)