[Indigo]<Solidviews>SolidModeler>SVFancyRaysImpl.mesa!8

File: SVFancyRaysImpl.mesa

Created July 3, 1983 12:33 pm

Last edited by Bier on June 1, 1987 10:45:37 am PDT

Contents: Procedures implementing shadows (reflections and transparency to come).

DIRECTORY

AtomButtonsTypes, SVCastRays, SVRay, Feedback, SV3d, SVFancyRays, SVModelTypes, SVSceneTypes;

SVFancyRaysImpl: CEDAR PROGRAM

IMPORTS SVCastRays, SVRay, Feedback

EXPORTS SVFancyRays =

BEGIN

CSGTree: TYPE = SVSceneTypes.CSGTree;

FeedbackData: TYPE = AtomButtonsTypes.FeedbackData;

LightSource: TYPE = SVModelTypes.LightSource;

LightSourceList: TYPE = SVModelTypes.LightSourceList;

Point3d: TYPE = SV3d.Point3d;

Ray: TYPE = SVSceneTypes.Ray;

Vector3d: TYPE = SV3d.Vector3d;

VisibleLights: PUBLIC PROC [allLights: LightSourceList, surfacePoint: Point3d, tree: CSGTree, useBoundSpheres: BOOL, feedback: FeedbackData, makeStream: BOOL ← FALSE, indent: NAT ← 0] RETURNS [visibleLights: LightSourceList] = {

surfaceToLightRay: Ray;

lightsource: LightSource;

ambient: LightSource;

hits: BOOL;

t: REAL;

IF makeStream THEN Feedback.PutFTypescript[feedback, oneLiner, "\nFinding Visible Lights...\n\n"];

surfaceToLightRay ← SVRay.GetRayFromPool[];

visibleLights ← NIL;

IF allLights.first.type # ambient THEN ERROR;

ambient ← allLights.first; -- CONS on last, so it will be first.

FOR l: LightSourceList ← allLights.rest, l.rest UNTIL l = NIL DO

lightsource ← l.first;

SVRay.StuffWorldRayFromPoints[surfaceToLightRay, surfacePoint, lightsource.position];

[hits, t] ← SVCastRays.FirstHit[surfaceToLightRay, tree, useBoundSpheres, feedback, makeStream, indent];

IF hits THEN {

IF t >=1 THEN visibleLights ← CONS[lightsource, visibleLights]

The first hit occurs past the light source.

}

ELSE visibleLights ← CONS[lightsource, visibleLights];

ENDLOOP;

IF makeStream THEN {

lightCount: NAT ← CountLights[visibleLights];

Feedback.PutF[feedback, oneLiner, "\n%g Visible Lights found.\n\n", [integer[lightCount]]];

};

SVRay.ReturnRayToPool[surfaceToLightRay];

visibleLights ← CONS[ambient, visibleLights];

The ambient light is never blocked.

};

CountLights: PROC [lights: LightSourceList] RETURNS [count: NAT] = {

count ← 0;

FOR list: LightSourceList ← lights, list.rest UNTIL list = NIL DO

count ← count + 1;

ENDLOOP;

};

END.

Edited on August 2, 1983 5:12 pm, by Bier

Fixed VisibleLights so that a light is considered visible even if a ray from surface to light hits an object, so long as that object is past the lightsource.