Compute the bitangent vector of a given triangle.
This function can be used to generate bitangent vertex attributes for normal
mapping. After computing bitangents, one may orthogonalize them with vertex
normals using the orthogonalize() function, or within the fragment
shader. Uses texture coordinates at each triangle vertex to determine the
direction of the vector.
tri (array_like) – Triangle vertices as 2D (3x3) array [p0, p1, p2] where each vertex is a length 3 array [vx, xy, vz]. The input array can be 3D (Nx3x3) to specify multiple triangles.
uv (array_like) – Texture coordinates associated with each face vertex as a 2D array (3x2) where each texture coordinate is length 2 array [u, v]. The input array can be 3D (Nx3x2) to specify multiple texture coordinates if multiple triangles are specified.
norm (bool, optional) – Normalize computed bitangents if True, default is True.
out (ndarray, optional) – Optional output array. Must have one fewer dimensions than tri. The shape of the last dimension must be 3.
dtype (dtype or str, optional) – Data type for computations can either be ‘float32’ or ‘float64’. If out is specified, the data type of out is used and this argument is ignored. If out is not provided, ‘float64’ is used by default.
Surface bitangent of triangle tri.
ndarray
Examples
Computing the bitangents for two triangles from vertex and texture coordinates (UVs):
# array of triangle vertices (2x3x3)
tri = np.asarray([
[(-1.0, 1.0, 0.0), (-1.0, -1.0, 0.0), (1.0, -1.0, 0.0)], # 1
[(-1.0, 1.0, 0.0), (-1.0, -1.0, 0.0), (1.0, -1.0, 0.0)]]) # 2
# array of triangle texture coordinates (2x3x2)
uv = np.asarray([
[(0.0, 1.0), (0.0, 0.0), (1.0, 0.0)], # 1
[(0.0, 1.0), (0.0, 0.0), (1.0, 0.0)]]) # 2
bitangents = surfaceBitangent(tri, uv, norm=True) # bitangets (2x3)