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Creating Geometry with Arrays

     Creating Curves with Arrays

With an array of IVec, you can create ICurve easily.

import processing.opengl.*;
import igeo.*;

size( 480, 360, IG.GL );

IVec[] cpts1 = new IVec[4];

cpts1[0] = new IVec(-30, 10, 0);
cpts1[1] = new IVec(-10, 10, 0);
cpts1[2] = new IVec(-10, 30, 0);
cpts1[3] = new IVec(-30, 30, 0);
// curve 1 (red)
new ICurve(cpts1, 3).clr(1.,0,0);


IVec[] cpts2 = new IVec[10];
for(int i=0; i < cpts2.length; i++){
  if(i%2==0){ cpts2[i] = new IVec(i*10, 0, 0); }
  else{ cpts2[i] = new IVec(i*10, 10, 0); }
}
// curve 2 (blue)
new ICurve(cpts2, 1).clr(0,0,1.);

IVec[] cpts3 = new IVec[16];
for(int i=0; i < cpts3.length; i++){
  if(i%4==0){ cpts3[i] = new IVec(-30, -10, i*5); }
  else if(i%4==1){ cpts3[i] = new IVec(-10, -10, i*5); }
  else if(i%4==2){ cpts3[i] = new IVec(-10, -30, i*5); }
  else{ cpts3[i] = new IVec(-30, -30, i*5); } // same with i%4==3
}
// curve 3 (cyan)
new ICurve(cpts3, 3).clr(0,1.,1.);


     Creating Surfaces with Arrays

2 dimensional array of IVec is convenient to create ISurface.

import processing.opengl.*;
import igeo.*;

size( 480, 360, IG.GL );

IVec[][] cpts1 = new IVec[2][2];
cpts1[0][0] = new IVec( 0, 0, 0);
cpts1[1][0] = new IVec(-30, 0, 0);
cpts1[0][1] = new IVec( 0,-30, 0);
cpts1[1][1] = new IVec(-30,-30, 0);
// surface 1 (gray)
new ISurface(cpts1);

IVec[][] cpts2 = new IVec[10][2];
for(int i=0; i < cpts2.length; i++){
  if(i%2==0){
    cpts2[i][0] = new IVec(i*10,0,0);
    cpts2[i][1] = new IVec(i*10,0,20);
  }
  else{
    cpts2[i][0] = new IVec(i*10,-10,0);
    cpts2[i][1] = new IVec(i*10,10,10);
  }
}
// surface 2 (purple)
new ISurface(cpts2).clr(.5,0,1);

IVec[][] cpts3 = new IVec[4][4];
for(int i=0; i < cpts3.length; i++){
  for(int j=0; j < cpts3[i].length; j++){
    if( (i==0||i==3) && (j==1||j==2) ){
      cpts3[i][j] = new IVec(-i*10, j*10, 20);
    }
    else{ cpts3[i][j] = new IVec(-i*10, j*10, 0); }
  }
}
// surface 3 (pink)
new ISurface(cpts3,3,3).clr(1,.5,1);


     Creating Polygon Mesh with Arrays

One of ways to create a polygon mesh is to provide a matrix of IVec in 2 dimensional array.

import processing.opengl.*;
import igeo.*;

size( 480, 360, IG.GL );

IVec[][] cpts1 = new IVec[10][10];

for(int i=0; i < cpts1.length; i++){
  for(int j=0; j < cpts1[i].length; j++){
    if( (i+j)%2==0 ){ 
      cpts1[i][j] = new IVec(i*5, -j*5-30, (i+j)*2); 
    }
    else{ cpts1[i][j] = new IVec(i*5, -j*5-30, (i+j-1)*2); }
  }
}
// mesh 1 (cyan)
new IMesh(cpts1).clr(0,1.,1.);

int divNum=30;
IVec[][] cpts2 = new IVec[10][divNum+1];
for(int i=0; i < cpts2.length; i++){
  for(int j=0; j < cpts2[i].length; j++){
    float radius = 30 - i*3;
    float angle = 2 * PI / divNum * j;
    cpts2[i][j] = 
      new IVec(cos(angle)*radius, sin(angle)*radius, i*i*.5);
  }
}
// mesh 2 (red)
new IMesh(cpts2).clr(1.,0,0);

Note that the use of constant PI to calculate the angle to be used in trigonometric function. divNum is dividing 2 * PI, not 360 because the unit of sin() and cos() is not degree but radian.
Please also note that the length of the array cpts2 in the second dimension is not divNum but divNum+1 to match points on the end edge with points on the start edge.


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