How retrieve the normal for a given face of ARMeshGeometry?

Question

given a ARMeshAnchor 'meshAnchor', i can retrieve its geometry and faces :

let geometry = meshAnchor.geometry
let faces = geometry.faces
var i = Int(0)
while i < faces.count
{
   //??? get the normal of faces[i]
   i = i+1
}

how can I retrieve the normal in world coordinates of faces[i] ?

Is there 1 normal per face ? per vertex of each triangle ? or per each vertex of the mesh ?

According to Apple : https://developer.apple.com/documentation/arkit/armeshgeometry/3516923-normals

var normals: ARGeometrySource { get }
= Rays that define which direction is outside for each face

HI, I was wondering if you found a solution. If so could you post the solution. — Bhavin p, May 13 '22 at 22:50
unfortunately not... if you can upvote the question this may help! — Gogo123, May 16 '22 at 18:57

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 16 '22 at 21:59

This was my solution. I used the int32 from the mesh anchor of the face geometry. This solution should run without an error. I was able to get a correct solution. Like I tested it by using the mesh surface created with scene understanding then getting a mesh face that was on the floor and it returned 0,1,0 (y is up direction) which is right! btw I used .first because there are 3 faces stored in the array due to the 3 verticies of a triangle. and their normals are all the same since its a plane.

   for index in 0..<anchor.geometry.faces.count {         
       let x = anchor.geometry.normals[anchor.geometry.faces[index].first!].0
       let y = anchor.geometry.normals[anchor.geometry.faces[index].first!].1
       let z = anchor.geometry.normals[anchor.geometry.faces[index].first!].2
       let normal = SIMD3(x, y, z) 
    }

How retrieve the normal for a given face of ARMeshGeometry?

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