Sphere contained by AABB
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What is the best method to determine if a sphere is inside an AABB?
I have to know if a sphere is inside, intersecting or outside the AABB.
At the moment I’m testing the sphere against the planes of the AABB (frustum style) but that can’t be the best way to do it, right?
Quote:At the moment I’m testing the sphere against the planes of the AABB (frustum style) but that can’t be the best way to do it, right?Are you taking advantage of the fact that the planes are axis-aligned? That should make the resulting computations pretty trivial. In a sense, you're testing to see if a point is in an AABB 'shrunk' by the sphere radius, and a point-in-AABB test is pretty straightforward.
Quote:Original post by CalexusA sphere S lies fully inside an AABB B if the AABB of S lies fully inside B. This, as jyk points out, you could turn into a point in AABB containment test by shrinking all sides of B by the sphere radius and testing if the sphere center lies inside the shrunken box.
What is the best method to determine if a sphere is inside an AABB?
To determine all three relationships (INSIDE, OUTSIDE, INTERSECTING) in a single routine, you could do this (untested code):
int ClassifySphereToAABB(Sphere s, AABB b){ int inside = 0; float sqDist = 0.0f; for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++) { float v = s.c; if (v < b.min) sqDist += (b.min - v) * (b.min - v); else if (v > b.max) sqDist += (v - b.max) * (v - b.max); else if (v >= b.min + s.r && v <= b.max - s.r) inside++; } if (inside == 3) return INSIDE; if (sqDist > s.r * s.r) return OUTSIDE; return INTERSECTING;}This topic is closed to new replies.
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