切线空间的计算

原帖地址

http://www.terathon.com/code/tangent.html

Q − P ₀ = (u − u ₀ )T + (v − v ₀ )B ,

这行的意思是下面这个图

where T and B are tangent vectors aligned to the texture map, P ₀ is the position of one of the vertices of the triangle, and (u ₀ , v ₀ ) are the texture coordinates at that vertex. The letter B stands for bitangent , but in many places it is stilled called binormal because of a mix-up in terms when tangent-space bump mapping first became widespread. (See “Bitangent versus Binormal” below.)

Suppose that we have a triangle whose vertex positions are given by the points P ₀ , P ₁ , and P ₂ , and whose corresponding texture coordinates are given by (u ₀ , v ₀ ), (u ₁ , v ₁ ), and (u ₂ , v ₂ ). Our calculations can be made much simpler by working relative to the vertex P ₀ , so we let

Q ₁ = P ₁ − P ₀
Q ₂ = P ₂ − P ₀

那么根据另外2点减去p0所得的向量

and

(s ₁ , t ₁ ) = (u ₁ − u ₀ , v ₁ − v ₀ )
(s ₂ , t ₂ ) = (u ₂ − u ₀ , v ₂ − v ₀ ).

We need to solve the following equations for T and B .

Q ₁ = s ₁ T + t ₁ B
Q ₂ = s ₂ T + t ₂ B

可以得出上面这个结论

 

由于Q1，Q2，s1,s2，t1，t2都是已知的 那么T,B 就可以求的出来 然后N = TXB

 

求出来的就是切线空间的左边

 

当normalmap是已知的时候,只要求逆就可以找到