btConvexHull.h

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/*
Stan Melax Convex Hull Computation
Copyright (c) 2008 Stan Melax http://www.melax.com/

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*/


#ifndef CD_HULL_H
#define CD_HULL_H

#include "btVector3.h"
#include "btAlignedObjectArray.h"

typedef btAlignedObjectArray<unsigned int> TUIntArray;

class HullResult
{
public:
    HullResult(void)
    {
        mPolygons = true;
        mNumOutputVertices = 0;
        mNumFaces = 0;
        mNumIndices = 0;
    }
    bool                    mPolygons;                  // true if indices represents polygons, false indices are triangles
    unsigned int            mNumOutputVertices;         // number of vertices in the output hull
    btAlignedObjectArray<btVector3> m_OutputVertices;            // array of vertices
    unsigned int            mNumFaces;                  // the number of faces produced
    unsigned int            mNumIndices;                // the total number of indices
    btAlignedObjectArray<unsigned int>    m_Indices;                   // pointer to indices.

// If triangles, then indices are array indexes into the vertex list.
// If polygons, indices are in the form (number of points in face) (p1, p2, p3, ..) etc..
};

enum HullFlag
{
    QF_TRIANGLES         = (1<<0),             // report results as triangles, not polygons.
    QF_REVERSE_ORDER     = (1<<1),             // reverse order of the triangle indices.
    QF_DEFAULT           = QF_TRIANGLES
};


class HullDesc
{
public:
    HullDesc(void)
    {
        mFlags          = QF_DEFAULT;
        mVcount         = 0;
        mVertices       = 0;
        mVertexStride   = sizeof(btVector3);
        mNormalEpsilon  = 0.001f;
        mMaxVertices    = 4096; // maximum number of points to be considered for a convex hull.
        mMaxFaces   = 4096;
    };

    HullDesc(HullFlag flag,
         unsigned int vcount,
         const btVector3 *vertices,
         unsigned int stride = sizeof(btVector3))
    {
        mFlags          = flag;
        mVcount         = vcount;
        mVertices       = vertices;
        mVertexStride   = stride;
        mNormalEpsilon  = btScalar(0.001);
        mMaxVertices    = 4096;
    }

    bool HasHullFlag(HullFlag flag) const
    {
        if ( mFlags & flag ) return true;
        return false;
    }

    void SetHullFlag(HullFlag flag)
    {
        mFlags|=flag;
    }

    void ClearHullFlag(HullFlag flag)
    {
        mFlags&=~flag;
    }

    unsigned int      mFlags;           // flags to use when generating the convex hull.
    unsigned int      mVcount;          // number of vertices in the input point cloud
    const btVector3  *mVertices;        // the array of vertices.
    unsigned int      mVertexStride;    // the stride of each vertex, in bytes.
    btScalar             mNormalEpsilon;   // the epsilon for removing duplicates.  This is a normalized value, if normalized bit is on.
    unsigned int      mMaxVertices;     // maximum number of vertices to be considered for the hull!
    unsigned int      mMaxFaces;
};

enum HullError
{
    QE_OK,            // success!
    QE_FAIL           // failed.
};

class btPlane
{
    public:
    btVector3   normal;
    btScalar    dist;   // distance below origin - the D from plane equasion Ax+By+Cz+D=0
            btPlane(const btVector3 &n,btScalar d):normal(n),dist(d){}
            btPlane():normal(),dist(0){}
    
};



class ConvexH 
{
  public:
    class HalfEdge
    {
      public:
        short ea;         // the other half of the edge (index into edges list)
        unsigned char v;  // the vertex at the start of this edge (index into vertices list)
        unsigned char p;  // the facet on which this edge lies (index into facets list)
        HalfEdge(){}
        HalfEdge(short _ea,unsigned char _v, unsigned char _p):ea(_ea),v(_v),p(_p){}
    };
    ConvexH()
    {
    }
    ~ConvexH()
    {
    }
    btAlignedObjectArray<btVector3> vertices;
    btAlignedObjectArray<HalfEdge> edges;
    btAlignedObjectArray<btPlane>  facets;
    ConvexH(int vertices_size,int edges_size,int facets_size);
};


class int4
{
public:
    int x,y,z,w;
    int4(){};
    int4(int _x,int _y, int _z,int _w){x=_x;y=_y;z=_z;w=_w;}
    const int& operator[](int i) const {return (&x)[i];}
    int& operator[](int i) {return (&x)[i];}
};

class PHullResult
{
public:

    PHullResult(void)
    {
        mVcount = 0;
        mIndexCount = 0;
        mFaceCount = 0;
        mVertices = 0;
    }

    unsigned int mVcount;
    unsigned int mIndexCount;
    unsigned int mFaceCount;
    btVector3*   mVertices;
    TUIntArray m_Indices;
};



class HullLibrary
{

    btAlignedObjectArray<class btHullTriangle*> m_tris;

public:

    btAlignedObjectArray<int> m_vertexIndexMapping;


    HullError CreateConvexHull(const HullDesc& desc, // describes the input request
                   HullResult&     result);        // contains the resulst
    HullError ReleaseResult(HullResult &result); // release memory allocated for this result, we are done with it.

private:

    bool ComputeHull(unsigned int vcount,const btVector3 *vertices,PHullResult &result,unsigned int vlimit);

    class btHullTriangle*   allocateTriangle(int a,int b,int c);
    void    deAllocateTriangle(btHullTriangle*);
    void b2bfix(btHullTriangle* s,btHullTriangle*t);

    void removeb2b(btHullTriangle* s,btHullTriangle*t);

    void checkit(btHullTriangle *t);

    btHullTriangle* extrudable(btScalar epsilon);

    int calchull(btVector3 *verts,int verts_count, TUIntArray& tris_out, int &tris_count,int vlimit);

    int calchullgen(btVector3 *verts,int verts_count, int vlimit);

    int4 FindSimplex(btVector3 *verts,int verts_count,btAlignedObjectArray<int> &allow);

    class ConvexH* ConvexHCrop(ConvexH& convex,const btPlane& slice);

    void extrude(class btHullTriangle* t0,int v);

    ConvexH* test_cube();

    //BringOutYourDead (John Ratcliff): When you create a convex hull you hand it a large input set of vertices forming a 'point cloud'. 
    //After the hull is generated it give you back a set of polygon faces which index the *original* point cloud.
    //The thing is, often times, there are many 'dead vertices' in the point cloud that are on longer referenced by the hull.
    //The routine 'BringOutYourDead' find only the referenced vertices, copies them to an new buffer, and re-indexes the hull so that it is a minimal representation.
    void BringOutYourDead(const btVector3* verts,unsigned int vcount, btVector3* overts,unsigned int &ocount,unsigned int* indices,unsigned indexcount);

    bool CleanupVertices(unsigned int svcount,
                 const btVector3* svertices,
                 unsigned int stride,
                 unsigned int &vcount, // output number of vertices
                 btVector3* vertices, // location to store the results.
                 btScalar  normalepsilon,
                 btVector3& scale);
};


#endif