26.04 Boundary Module and Tile Module

26.04.01 Boundary Module

The Boundary module modifies the scene by introducing a new member in FormProperties, defining a horizontal boundary of the scene.

The new member in FormProperties is defined as

interface FormProperties {
	boundary: OBB[]  // OPTIONAL
	// ...
}

where

• boundary is OPTIONAL, and its value MUST be an array of OBB type objects.

An OBB type object represents an oriented rectangle on the ground plane, defined by its center, its rotation about the center, and its halfWidth and halfLength. The OBB type is defined as

interface OBB {  
    center: Coordinate2D // REQUIRED
    rotation: Euler2D // REQUIRED
    halfWidth: number // REQUIRED
    halfLength: number // REQUIRED
}

where

• center is REQUIRED, and its value MUST be of type Coordinate2D. It represents the center of the oriented rectangle on the ground plane.
• rotation is REQUIRED, and its value MUST be of type Euler2D. It represents the rotation of the rectangle about its center.
• halfWidth is REQUIRED, and its value MUST be a number. It represents half the width of the rectangle, aligned with the $x$-axis at rotation 0.
• halfLength is REQUIRED, and its value MUST be a number. It represents half the length of the rectangle, aligned with the $y$-axis at rotation 0.

26.04.02 Tile Module

The Tile module modifies the scene by introducing three new members in FormProperties, defining a tiled horizontal boundary of the scene.

The new members in FormProperties are defined as

interface FormProperties {
	tileList: Coordinate2D[] // OPTIONAL
    tileModel: Artifact // OPTIONAL
    tileVisible: boolean // OPTIONAL
    // ...
}

where

• tileList is OPTIONAL, and its value MUST be an array of Coordinate2D. It represents a tiled horizontal boundary of the scene as an array of positions of square tiles on the ground plane.
• tileModel is OPTIONAL, and its value MUST be of type Artifact. It represents the visual representation of each tile in the scene. Its value MUST be ignored if tileList is not specified, or if tileVisible is false, or both.
• tileVisible is OPTIONAL, and its value MUST be of type boolean. It represents the visibility toggle of the tile model. If it is not provided, the default value true MUST be used. Its value MUST be ignored if tileList is not specified.

When tileVisible is true and tileModel is specified, the implementation MUST place tileModel at each position on the ground plane specified by tileList with zero rotation as the visual representation of each tile. When working with the Layout Mode module, the placed tileModel MUST NOT affect the reconstruction logic of the scene and MUST NOT appear in the layout data.

When tileVisible is true and tileModel is not specified, the implementation MAY use its own Artifact as tileModel for the visual representation of the tile. It is RECOMMENDED to use a mid-tone gray plane with dimensions 1 by 1 as the default visual representation of each tile.

When tileVisible is false, there MUST NOT be any visual representation of the tile and the value of tileModel MUST be ignored.

When used with the Category module, the artifact that can be used as value of tileModel MUST use tile as its artifact category.

type Category = "tile" // ...

26.04.03 Horizontal Boundary of the Scene

A horizontal boundary of the scene is defined by a list of oriented rectangles, commonly referred to as oriented bounding boxes (OBBs), as defined in 26.04-Boundary-Module-and-Tile-Module#26.02.02 Boundary Module, lying on the ground plane. The union of the specified list of OBBs defines the inside of the scene, and any point that does not lie within this union is considered outside of the scene. The line where the outside and the inside of the scene meet is the scene boundary.

For general artifacts, the ground plane $(x, y)$ placement, i.e., the projection of its $(x, y, z)$ placement onto the ground plane, MUST NOT lie outside of the scene. This means its $(x, y)$ placement may lie on the scene boundary by the definition of outside of the scene. Any artifact whose $(x, y)$ placement lies outside of the scene MUST be removed during reconstruction of the scene.

When working with the Layout Mode module, for artifacts participating in stacking logic, no point of such an artifact's footprint MUST lie outside of the scene. That is, such artifacts in layout MUST be removed before the stacking logic is applied.

When the Boundary module, the Tile module, or both are used, the boundary can be specified by the boundary member, the tileList member, or both, in FormProperties. When the boundary is specified by boundary, its value directly gives the OBBs of the boundary. When the boundary is specified by tileList, it is equivalent to a list of OBBs with zero rotation and width and length of 1, i.e., halfWidth and halfLength of 0.5, centered at each element of tileList. When both boundary and tileList are specified, the boundary is their intersection.

When neither boundary nor tileList is specified, or both modules are not supported by the implementation, there is no boundary for the scene and every point in the scene is considered to lie within the boundary.

One MUST NOT confuse the case where these data are specified as empty lists, which indicates that every point lies outside of the boundary, with the case where these data are not specified, which indicates that there is no boundary and every point in the scene lies within the boundary.

Please note that this boundary is the boundary of the scene, not the boundary for avatar movement. For the boundary of avatar movement, please see TODO.