public static PlaneBorder createBetween3LocationsPointingTo(Scientrace.Location baseLoc, Scientrace.Location loc2, Scientrace.Location loc3, Scientrace.Location pointingToLoc)
{
Vector v1 = (loc2 - baseLoc).tryToUnitVector();
Vector v2 = (loc3 - baseLoc).tryToUnitVector();
NonzeroVector tryNormal = v1.crossProduct(v2).tryToNonzeroVector();
//Console.WriteLine("V1: "+v1.trico()+" v2:"+v2.trico()+" trynormal:"+tryNormal.trico());
PlaneBorder tryBorder = new PlaneBorder(baseLoc, tryNormal);
if (tryBorder.contains(pointingToLoc))
{
return(tryBorder);
}
tryBorder = new PlaneBorder(baseLoc, tryNormal.negative());
if (tryBorder.contains(pointingToLoc))
{
return(tryBorder);
}
throw new Exception("Couldn't create PlaneBorder containing " + pointingToLoc.trico());
} //end createBetween3LocationsPoitningTo(...)
public Scientrace.PlaneBorderEnclosedVolume parseXTruncatedPyramid(XElement xTruncatedPyramid)
{
// Replaced with below: Scientrace.MaterialProperties materialprops = this.getXMaterial(xToppedPyramid.Element("Material"));
Scientrace.MaterialProperties materialprops = this.getXMaterialForObject(xTruncatedPyramid);
if ((xTruncatedPyramid.Name.ToString() != "TruncatedPyramid") && (xTruncatedPyramid.Name.ToString() != "ToppedPyramid"))
{
throw new XMLException("TruncatedPyramid does not match its name: " + xTruncatedPyramid.Name.ToString());
}
List <Scientrace.Location> front_corners = new List <Scientrace.Location>();
Scientrace.Vector loc_sum = new Scientrace.Vector(0, 0, 0);
foreach (XElement xFrontCorner in xTruncatedPyramid.Elements("Corner"))
{
Scientrace.Location loc = this.X.getXLocation(xFrontCorner);
front_corners.Add(loc);
loc_sum = loc_sum + loc;
}
Scientrace.Vector loc_avg = loc_sum / front_corners.Count;
Scientrace.Location virtual_top = this.X.getXLocation(xTruncatedPyramid, "VirtualTop");
// parsing topping plane data:
XElement xTopPlane = xTruncatedPyramid.Element("TopPlane");
if (xTopPlane == null)
{
throw new XMLException("TopPlane element not found... " + xTruncatedPyramid.ToString());
}
Scientrace.Location topPlaneLoc = this.X.getXLocation(xTopPlane, "Location");
Scientrace.NonzeroVector topPlaneNormal = this.X.getXNzVectorByName(xTopPlane, "Normal");
if (topPlaneNormal.dotProduct((topPlaneLoc - loc_avg)) > 0)
{
topPlaneNormal = topPlaneNormal.negative();
}
Scientrace.PlaneBorder topping_plane = new Scientrace.PlaneBorder(topPlaneLoc, topPlaneNormal);
Scientrace.PlaneBorderEnclosedVolume tRetTruncatedPyramid = Scientrace.PlaneBorderEnclosedVolume.createTruncatedPyramid(this.parentcollection, materialprops,
front_corners, virtual_top, topping_plane);
return(tRetTruncatedPyramid);
}
