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-/****************************************************************************
-* VCGLib                                                            o o     *
-* Visual and Computer Graphics Library                            o     o   *
-*                                                                _   O  _   *
-* Copyright(C) 2004                                                \/)\/    *
-* Visual Computing Lab                                            /\/|      *
-* ISTI - Italian National Research Council                           |      *
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-* All rights reserved.                                                      *
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-* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify      *   
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-* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or         *
-* (at your option) any later version.                                       *
-*                                                                           *
-* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,           *
-* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of            *
-* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the             *
-* GNU General Public License (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt)          *
-* for more details.                                                         *
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-****************************************************************************/
-/****************************************************************************
-  History
-
-$Log: not supported by cvs2svn $
-Revision 1.3  2004/09/16 14:23:57  ponchio
-fixed gcc template compatibility issues.
-
-Revision 1.2  2004/09/10 14:02:20  cignoni
-Added Cone directions
-
-Revision 1.1  2004/09/09 22:38:57  cignoni
-Initial Update
-
-****************************************************************************/
-
-#ifndef __VCG_GEN_NORMAL
-#define __VCG_GEN_NORMAL
-#include <wrap/gl/math.h>
-namespace vcg {
-
-  
-template <class ScalarType>
-class GenNormal 
-{
-public:
-typedef Point3<ScalarType> Point3x;
-
-static void  Random(int vn, std::vector<Point3<ScalarType > > &NN)
-{
-  NN.clear();
-  while(NN.size()<vn)
-  {
-    Point3x pp(((float)rand())/RAND_MAX,
-	       ((float)rand())/RAND_MAX,
-	       ((float)rand())/RAND_MAX);
-    pp=pp*2.0-Point3x(1,1,1);
-    if(pp.SquaredNorm()<1)
-    {
-      Normalize(pp);
-      NN.push_back(pp);
-    }
-  }
-}
-static void UniformCone(int vn, std::vector<Point3<ScalarType > > &NN, ScalarType AngleRad, Point3x dir=Point3x(0,1,0))
-{
-  std::vector<Point3<ScalarType > > NNT;
-  NN.clear();
-  // per prima cosa si calcola il volume della spherical cap di angolo AngleRad
-  ScalarType Height= 1.0 - cos(AngleRad); // height is measured from top...
-  // Surface is the one of the tangent cylinder
-  ScalarType CapArea = 2.0*M_PI*Height;
-  ScalarType Ratio = CapArea / (4.0*M_PI );
-
-  printf("----------AngleRad %f Angledeg %f ratio %f vn %i vn2 %i \n",AngleRad,math::ToDeg(AngleRad),Ratio,vn,int(vn/Ratio));
-  Uniform(vn/Ratio,NNT);
-  printf("asked %i got %i (expecting %i instead of %i)\n", int(vn/Ratio), NNT.size(), int(NNT.size()*Ratio), vn);
-  typename std::vector<Point3<ScalarType> >::iterator vi;
-  
-  ScalarType DotProd = cos(AngleRad);
-  for(vi=NNT.begin();vi!=NNT.end();++vi)
-  {
-    if(dir*(*vi) >= DotProd) NN.push_back(*vi);
-  }
- }
-
-
-static void Uniform(int vn, std::vector<Point3<ScalarType > > &NN)
-{
-  OctaLevel pp;
-
-  int ll=10;
-  while(pow(4.0f,ll)+2>vn) ll--;
-
-  pp.Init(ll);
-  sort(pp.v.begin(),pp.v.end());
-  int newsize = unique(pp.v.begin(),pp.v.end())-pp.v.begin();
-  pp.v.resize(newsize);
-
-  NN=pp.v;
-  Perturb(NN);
- }
-
-static void Perturb(std::vector<Point3<ScalarType > > &NN)
-{
-  float width=0.2f/sqrt(float(NN.size()));
-
-  typename std::vector<Point3<ScalarType> >::iterator vi;
-  for(vi=NN.begin(); vi!=NN.end();++vi) 
-  {
-    Point3x pp(((float)rand())/RAND_MAX,
-	       ((float)rand())/RAND_MAX,
-	       ((float)rand())/RAND_MAX);
-    pp=pp*2.0-Point3x(1,1,1);
-    pp*=width;
-    (*vi)+=pp;
-    (*vi).Normalize();
-  }
-
-}
-
-private :
-class OctaLevel
-  {
-  public:
-    std::vector<Point3x> v;
-    int level;
-    int sz;
-
-    Point3f &Val(int i, int j) {
-      assert(i>=0 && i<sz);
-      assert(j>=0 && j<sz);
-      return v[i+j*sz];
-    }
-
-    void Init(int lev)
-    {
-      sz=pow(2.0f,lev+1)+1;
-      v.resize(sz*sz);
-      if(lev==0)
-      {
-        Val(0,0)=Point3x( 0, 0,-1); Val(0,1)=Point3x( 0, 1, 0);  Val(0,2)=Point3x( 0, 0,-1);
-        
-        Val(1,0)=Point3x(-1, 0, 0); Val(1,1)=Point3x( 0, 0, 1);   Val(1,2)=Point3x( 1, 0, 0);
-
-        Val(2,0)=Point3x( 0, 0,-1); Val(2,1)=Point3x( 0,-1, 0);   Val(2,2)=Point3x( 0, 0,-1);
-      }
-      else
-      {
-        OctaLevel tmp;
-        tmp.Init(lev-1);
-        int i,j;
-        for(i=0;i<sz;++i)
-          for(j=0;j<sz;++j)
-          {
-            if((i%2)==0 && (j%2)==0) 
-              Val(i,j)=tmp.Val(i/2,j/2);
-            if((i%2)!=0 && (j%2)==0) 
-                Val(i,j)=(tmp.Val(i/2+0,j/2)+tmp.Val(i/2+1,j/2))/2.0;
-            if((i%2)==0 && (j%2)!=0) 
-                Val(i,j)=(tmp.Val(i/2,j/2+0)+tmp.Val(i/2,j/2+1))/2.0;
-            if((i%2)!=0 && (j%2)!=0) 
-                Val(i,j)=(tmp.Val(i/2+0,j/2+0)+tmp.Val(i/2+0,j/2+1)+tmp.Val(i/2+1,j/2+0)+tmp.Val(i/2+1,j/2+1))/4.0;
-          }
-	typename std::vector<Point3<ScalarType> >::iterator vi;
-        for(vi=v.begin(); vi!=v.end();++vi) 
-            (*vi).Normalize();
-  
-      }
-    }
-  };
-};
-}
-#endif