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surfplane.m
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function plane = surfplane(node, face)
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% plane=surfplane(node,face)
%
% plane equation coefficients for each face in a surface
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% author: Qianqian Fang, <q.fang at neu.edu>
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% input:
% node: a list of node coordinates (nn x 3)
% face: a surface mesh triangle list (ne x 3)
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% output:
% plane: a (ne x 4) array, in each row, it has [a b c d]
% to denote the plane equation as "a*x+b*y+c*z+d=0"
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% -- this function is part of iso2mesh toolbox (http://iso2mesh.sf.net)
%
AB = node(face(:, 2), 1:3) - node(face(:, 1), 1:3);
AC = node(face(:, 3), 1:3) - node(face(:, 1), 1:3);
N = cross(AB', AC')';
d = -dot(N', node(face(:, 1), 1:3)')';
plane = [N, d];