source: GTP/trunk/App/Demos/Vis/FriendlyCulling/src/SampleGenerator.h @ 3343

#ifndef __SAMPLEGENERATOR_H
#define __SAMPLEGENERATOR_H

#include "Halton.h"


/** Class that generates samples on a circle
*/

struct Sample2
{
        Sample2() {}
        Sample2(float _x, float _y): x(_x), y(_y) {}

        float x; 
        float y;
};


struct Sample3
{
        Sample3() {}
        Sample3(float _x, float _y, float _z): x(_x), y(_y), z(_z) {}

        float x; 
        float y;
        float z;
};

/** Class generating random samples on a disc or in a sphere, respectively.
        Note: Rewrite this!! it does not work well enough, rather, sample generator should
        be either poisson or halton or random that can be used to create samples on a disc ...
*/
class SampleGenerator
{
public:
        
        SampleGenerator(int numSamples, float radius);

        virtual void Generate(float *samples) const = 0;

        virtual ~SampleGenerator();

protected:

        SampleGenerator() {};

        HaltonSequence *mHalton;
        int mNumSamples;
        float mRadius;
};


class RandomSampleGenerator2D: public SampleGenerator
{
public:
        
        RandomSampleGenerator2D(int numSamples, float radius);

        virtual void Generate(float *samples) const;
};


/** This class generates random samples on a disc respecting
        the poisson disc condition (all samples at least distance d apart)
        according to some d related to the number of samples.
*/
class PoissonDiscSampleGenerator2D: public SampleGenerator
{
public:
        
        PoissonDiscSampleGenerator2D(int numSamples, float radius);

        virtual void Generate(float *samples) const;
};


/** This class generates random samples on a disc
        that have the property that their density decreases quadratically
        with the distance
*/
//class QuadraticDiscSampleGenerator2D: public PoissonDiscSampleGenerator2D
class QuadraticDiscSampleGenerator2D: public RandomSampleGenerator2D
{
public:
        
        QuadraticDiscSampleGenerator2D(int numSamples, float radius);

        virtual void Generate(float *samples) const;
};


/** This class generates random spherical samples.
*/
class SphericalSampleGenerator3D: public SampleGenerator
{
public:
        
        SphericalSampleGenerator3D(int numSamples, float radius);

        virtual void Generate(float *samples) const;
};


#endif