八叉树(Octree)是一种用于描述三维空间的树状数据结构。想象一个立方体,我们最少可以切成多少个相同等分的小立方体?答案就是8个。再想象我们有一个房间,房间里某个角落藏着一枚金币,我们想很快的把金币找出来,怎么找最高效?我们可以把房间当成一个立方体,先切成八个小立方体,然后排除掉没有放任何东西的小立方体,再把有可能藏金币的小立方体继续切八等份….如此下去,平均在Log8(房间内的所有物品数)的时间内就可找到金币。因此,八叉树就是用在3D空间中的场景管理,可以很快地知道物体在3D场景中的位置,或侦测与其它物体是否有碰撞以及是否在可视范围内。
VREP软件中可以在场景里创建八叉树(Add→Octree),通常用于简化表达复杂的形体或点云。An octree is an object that represents a spacial partitioning. It is made up by a tree data structure in which each node has exactly eight children. Occupied leaf nodes are represented as voxels. Octrees can be used to offer a simplified representation for shapes or point clouds, or can act as an occupancy grid/space:
Octrees are collidable, measurable and detectable objects. This means that octrees:
- can be used in collision detections with other collidable objects.
- can be used in minimum distance calculations with other measurable objects.
- can be detected by proximity sensors.
函数simInsertVoxelsIntoOctree可以向八叉树中插入Voxels (三维像素),它是一种基于体积概念的像素,通常的普通像素只需要X、Y轴两个坐标来定位它在空间中的方位,而它还需要加进一个额外的Z轴坐标,相当于空间中一个非常小的立方体。
simInsertVoxelsIntoOctree(number octreeHandle,number options,table points,table color=nil,table tag=nil)
下面代码通过Octree创建了一个简单的围墙:
if (sim_call_type==sim_childscriptcall_initialization) then octree=simGetObjectAssociatedWithScript(sim_handle_self) local p = {-1, 1, 0.05} for i=0,20,1 do color = {255*math.random(),255*math.random(),255*math.random()} simInsertVoxelsIntoOctree(octree, 0, {p[1],p[2]-2*i/20,p[3]}, color, nil) simInsertVoxelsIntoOctree(octree, 0, {p[1]+2*i/20,p[2],p[3]}, color, nil) simInsertVoxelsIntoOctree(octree, 0, {p[1]+2*i/20,p[2]-2,p[3]}, color, nil) simInsertVoxelsIntoOctree(octree, 0, {p[1]+2,p[2]-2*i/20,p[3]}, color, nil) end end if (sim_call_type==sim_childscriptcall_cleanup) then -- Put some restoration code here simRemoveVoxelsFromOctree(octree, 0, nil) end
number result,number distance = simReadProximitySensor(number sensorHandle)
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