ray/triangle intersection + uv calculation

OpenGL
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Hello,

What is the most direct way to intersect a ray with a triangle and compute the associated uv coordinates at this point ?

(something less consuming than matrix operations if possible)

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Google a little about barycentric coordinate and I think that you can find all you want about this.

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Or more simple (but not really more speed) if you have already your proper algorithm for to find the point of intersection (say P) of a triangle ABC and a line from P0 to P1 …

First, you compute distances from P to A, B and C:

dA = distance from A to P
dB = distance from B to P
dC = distance from C to B

sum = dA + dB + dC
coefA = dA / sum
coefB = dB / sum
coefC = dC / sum

So, the texture coordinate at point P is :

uP = uA * coefA + uB * coefB + uC * coefC
vP = vA * coefA + vB * coefB + vC * coefC

Note too that you can apply this to alls points P into the triangle ABC and to be applied to another style of coordinates such as color componants for example …

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Thanks !
I first calculated my own barycentric formulas, however it requires far more operations than yours. But yours involve square roots operation, so… Well I have to give it a try :slight_smile: