Ponca data-structure binding

This is an example of how to instantiate the PointConcept in order to use Ponca on existing data structures without any memory duplication.

We apply exactly the same processing than in Ponca basic CPU, but this time by taking an interlaced raw buffer as input.

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#include <iostream>
 
#include <Ponca/src/Fitting/basket.h>
#include <Ponca/src/Fitting/gls.h>
#include <Ponca/src/Fitting/orientedSphereFit.h>
#include <Ponca/src/Fitting/weightFunc.h>
#include <Ponca/src/Fitting/weightKernel.h>
#include <Ponca/src/Common/pointTypes.h>
 
#include "Eigen/Eigen"
 
using namespace std;
using namespace Ponca;
 
#define DIMENSION 3
 
using MyPoint    = PointPositionNormalBinding<double, DIMENSION>;
using Scalar     = MyPoint::Scalar;
using VectorType = MyPoint::VectorType;
 
// Define related structure
using WeightFunc = DistWeightFunc<MyPoint, SmoothWeightKernel<Scalar>>;
using Fit        = Basket<MyPoint, WeightFunc, OrientedSphereFit, GLSParam>;
 
template <typename Fit>
void test_fit(Fit& _fit, Scalar* const _interlacedArray, const int _n, const VectorType& _p)
{
    Scalar tmax = 100.0;
 
    // Set a weighting function instance with the evaluation position
    _fit.setNeighborFilter({_p, tmax});
    _fit.init();
 
    // Iterate over samples and _fit the primitive
    // A MyPoint instance is generated on the fly to bind the raw arrays to the
    // library representation. No copy is done at this step.
    for (int i = 0; i != _n; i++)
    {
        _fit.addNeighbor(MyPoint(_interlacedArray, i));
    }
 
    // Finalize fitting
    _fit.finalize();
 
    // Test if the fitting ended without errors
    if (_fit.isStable())
    {
        cout << "Center: [" << _fit.center().transpose() << "] ;  radius: " << _fit.radius() << endl;
 
        cout << "Pratt normalization" << (_fit.applyPrattNorm() ? " is now done." : " has already been applied.")
             << endl;
 
        // Play with fitting output
        cout << "Value of the scalar field at the initial point: " << _p.transpose() << " is equal to "
             << _fit.potential(_p) << endl;
 
        cout << "It's gradient at this place is equal to: " << _fit.primitiveGradient(_p).transpose() << endl;
 
        cout << "Fitted Sphere: " << endl
             << "\t Tau  : " << _fit.tau() << endl
             << "\t Eta  : " << _fit.eta().transpose() << endl
             << "\t Kappa: " << _fit.kappa() << endl;
 
        cout << "The initial point " << _p.transpose() << endl
             << "Is projected at   " << _fit.project(_p).transpose() << endl;
    }
}
 
// Build an interlaced array containing _n position and normal vectors
Scalar* buildInterlacedArray(const int _n)
{
    auto* const interlacedArray = new Scalar[2 * DIMENSION * _n];
 
    for (int k = 0; k < _n; ++k)
    {
        // For the simplicity of this example, we use Eigen Vectors to compute
        // both coordinates and normals, and then copy the raw values to an
        // interlaced array, discarding the Eigen representation.
        const Eigen::Matrix<Scalar, DIMENSION, 1> nvec = Eigen::Matrix<Scalar, DIMENSION, 1>::Random().normalized();
        const Eigen::Matrix<Scalar, DIMENSION, 1> pvec = nvec * Eigen::internal::random<Scalar>(0.9, 1.1);
 
        // Grab coordinates and store them as raw buffer
        memcpy(interlacedArray + 2 * DIMENSION * k, pvec.data(), DIMENSION * sizeof(Scalar));
        memcpy(interlacedArray + 2 * DIMENSION * k + DIMENSION, nvec.data(), DIMENSION * sizeof(Scalar));
    }
 
    return interlacedArray;
}
 
int main()
{
    // Build arrays containing normals and positions,
    // simulating data coming from outside the library.
    constexpr int n               = 1000;
    Scalar* const interlacedArray = buildInterlacedArray(n);
 
    // Set evaluation point and scale at the first coordinate
    const VectorType p(interlacedArray);
 
    // Here we now perform the fit, starting from a raw interlaced buffer,
    // without any data duplication
    Fit fit;
    test_fit(fit, interlacedArray, n, p);
 
    delete[] interlacedArray;
}