Hello to Bill Hibbard and the mailing list.
Can someone help me out and tell me what these parameters are for
the make_normals() method in the Gridded3DSet class?
Here's the signature:
/**
* @param VX, VY, VZ -the x,y,z coordinates of the vertices
* @param NX, NY, NZ -the x,y,z components of each normal vector
* @param nvertex -the number of vertices
* @param npolygons -the number of polygons
* @param Pnx, Pny, Pnx - ?
* @param NxA, NxB, NyA - ?
* @param NxB, NzA, NzB - ?
* @param Pol_f_Vert - ?
* @param Vert_f_Pol - ?
*/
public static void make_normals(float[] VX, float[] VY, float[] VZ,
float[] NX, float[] NY, float[] NZ,
int nvertex, int npolygons,
float[] Pnx, float[] Pny, float[] Pnz,
float[] NxA, float[] NxB, float[] NyA,
float[] NyB, float[] NzA, float[] NzB,
int[] Pol_f_Vert, int[] Vert_f_Pol)
i've filled in what some of them are. The ones with '?' i still don't
know. The Pnx..NzB look like temporary arrays to hold intermediate
results of some sort. What are the int[] Pol_f_Vert and the int[]
Vert_f_Pol? Are they mappings of some sort from polygons to vertices?
Also what does poly_triangle_stripe() do? It looks like it calculates the
size of a triangle strip array. However, conceptually speaking, what is
the size of a triangle strip array? Does it include an array that holds
the x,y,z values of each vertex and each vertex normal?
-cheers, bob
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