JuliaGeometry / JuliaGeometry/GeometryBasics.jl
Meshing a single triangle sometimes returns an empty mesh
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Description
The doc page at https://juliageometry.github.io/GeometryBasics.jl/dev/meshes/ is empty, so I'm not sure what I'm expected to do, but creating a mesh out of a single triangle sometimes works:
julia> normal_mesh(Triangle(Point(0,0,0.0),Point(1.0,0,0),Point(0,1.0,0)))
Mesh{3, Float32, Triangle}:
Triangle(Float32[0.0, 1.0, 0.0], Float32[0.0, 0.0, 0.0], Float32[1.0, 0.0, 0.0])
and sometimes doesn't:
julia> ϕ = (sqrt(5)+1)/2
1.618033988749895
julia> p,q,r = Point(ϕ,0,+1),Point(1,ϕ,0),Point(ϕ,0,-1)
([1.618033988749895, 0.0, 1.0], [1.0, 1.618033988749895, 0.0], [1.618033988749895, 0.0, -1.0])
julia> normal_mesh(Triangle(p,q,r))
Mesh{3, Float64, Triangle}
I was trying to follow the MeshCat.jl's tutorial, and I got this issue while trying to draw a flat triangle.
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Reproduce the two examples in a Julia REPL, starting with the normal_mesh entry point and the golden-ratio triangle shown in the report. Trace why that triangle produces an empty Mesh, then verify that single-triangle inputs return the expected mesh rather than an empty result.
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