ISPOINTINMESH Check if a point is inside a 3D mesh.
B = isPointInMesh(PT, V, F)
Check if the point PT (given as a 1-by-3 array) is inside the mesh
defined by the vertices V and the face array F. The result is a
boolean.
If PT is a N-by-3 point array, the result is a N-by-1 array of logical.
Example
[v, f] = torusMesh([50 50 50 30 10 30 45]);
[x, y, z] = meshgrid(5:5:100, 5:5:100, 5:5:100);
res = false(size(x));
res(:) = isPointInMesh([x(:) y(:) z(:)], v, f);
figure; plot3(x(res), y(res), z(res), 'b.'); axis equal;
Algorithm:
The method computes the intersection with a ray starting from the
point(s) and with a random orientation. Some errors are possible if
rays crosses the mesh between two or three faces.
See also
meshes3d, intersectLineMesh3d
Package: matgeom