cube3D.tris: Return triangles for a 3D cube or cuboid.

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Return triangles for a 3D cube or cuboid.

Description

Each row of the returned matrix encodes a point (the x, y, and z coordinates), and 3 consecutive rows encode a triangle. Obvisouly, a point will occur several times (as part of several triangles). The result can be passed to triangles3d to render a 3D box. The defaults for the parameters will create a cube with edge length 1 centered at (0, 0, 0).

Usage

cube3D.tris(
  xmin = -0.5,
  xmax = 0.5,
  ymin = -0.5,
  ymax = 0.5,
  zmin = -0.5,
  zmax = 0.5,
  center = NULL,
  edge_length = 1
)

Arguments

xmin	numeric, minimal x coordinate
xmax	numeric, maximal x coordinate
ymin	numeric, minimal y coordinate
ymax	numeric, maximal y coordinate
zmin	numeric, minimal z coordinate
zmax	numeric, maximal z coordinate
center	numeric vector of length 3 or NULL, coordinates where to center a cube with the edge length defined in parameter edge_length. If this is not NULL, the parameters xmin, xmax, ... will be ignored, and their values will be computed for a cube based on the center and edge_length. Note that you can only create cubes using center and edge_length, while the min/max methods allows the construction of cuboids.
edge_length	numeric, the edge length of the cube. Only used if parameter center is used, ignored otherwise.

Value

numerical matrix with 36 rows and 3 columns, the 3D coordinates. Each row encodes a point (the x, y, and z coordinates), and 3 consecutive rows encode a triangle.

Examples

   # Create a cube with edge length 2, centered at (3,4,5):
   cube_coords = cube3D.tris(center=c(3,4,5), edge_length=2.0);
   # Create the same cube using the min/max method:
   cube_coords = cube3D.tris(xmin=2, xmax=4, ymin=3, ymax=5, zmin=4, zmax=6);
   # Create a cuboid:
   cuboid_coords = cube3D.tris(xmin=2, xmax=4, ymin=3, ymax=9, zmin=4, zmax=5);
   # To render the cuboid:
   #rgl::triangles3d(cuboid_coords, col="red");

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