R: Convert between rgl user and window coordinates

rgl.user2window {rgl} | R Documentation

## Convert between rgl user and window coordinates

### Description

This function converts from 3-dimensional user coordinates to 3-dimensional window coordinates.

### Usage

    rgl.user2window(x, y = NULL, z = NULL, projection = rgl.projection())
    rgl.window2user(x, y = NULL, z = 0, projection = rgl.projection())
    rgl.projection()

### Arguments

`x, y, z` | Input coordinates. Any reasonable way of defining the coordinates is acceptable. See the function `xyz.coords` for details.
`projection` | The rgl projection to use

### Details

These functions convert between user coordinates and window coordinates.

Window coordinates run from 0 to 1 in X, Y, and Z. X runs from 0 on the left to 1 on the right; Y runs from 0 at the bottom to 1 at the top; Z runs from 0 foremost to 1 in the background. `rgl` does not currently display vertices plotted outside of this range, but in normal circumstances will automatically resize the display to show them. In the example below this has been suppressed.

### Value

The coordinate conversion functions produce a matrix with columns corresponding to the X, Y, and Z coordinates.

`rgl.projection()` returns a list containing the following components:

`model` | the modelview matrix
`projection` | the projection matrix
`viewport` | the viewport vector

See `par3d` for more details.

### Author(s)

Ming Chen / Duncan Murdoch

### See Also

`select3d`

### Examples

    open3d()
    points3d(rnorm(100), rnorm(100), rnorm(100))
    if (interactive() || !.Platform$OS == "unix") {
    # Calculate a square in the middle of the display and plot it
    square <- rgl.window2user(c(0.25, 0.25, 0.75, 0.75, 0.25),
                              c(0.25, 0.75, 0.75, 0.25, 0.25), 0.5)
    par3d(ignoreExtent = TRUE)
    lines3d(square)
    par3d(ignoreExtent = FALSE)
    }

[Package rgl version 0.99.9 Index]