Looking to do classic OpenGL mouse picking in ES. I'd prefer not to use third party libs, GLU ports and OpenGL name stacks, etc, are out. This pretty much leaves inverse view transformation and ray intersection, correct?
I've gotten pretty far with the help of: http://trac.bookofhook.com/bookofhook/trac.cgi/wiki/MousePicking http://eigenclass.blogspot.com/2008/10/opengl-es-picking-using-ray-boundingbox.html
. . .but I'm not there yet. This also reeks of THERE MUST BE AN EASIER WAY!!
Here is some code:
    -(void)handleTouch:(CGPoint)point {
    GLfloat width = backingWidth;
    GLfloat height = backingHeight;
    GLfloat x = point.x;
    GLfloat y = point.y;
    GLfloat z = 0.0f;
    //viewport -> normalized dev coord -> clip
    GLfloat n[] = {
        2 * x / width - 1,
        2 * y / height,
        2 * z - 1,
        1
    };
    float fov = 45.0f * (M_PI / 180.0f);
    float near = 0.01, far = 10.0f;
    float aspect = (float)backingWidth / (float)backingHeight;
    float top = tan(fov) * near;
    //float bottom = -top;
    //float left = aspect * bottom;
    float right = aspect * top;
    //I'm a viewing volume symmetric projection matrix
    GLfloat P[] = {
        near / right, 0, 0, 0,
        0, near / top, 0, 0,
        0, 0, -(far + near) / (far - near), (-2 * far * near) / (far - near),
        0, 0, -1, 0
    };
    GLfloat Pminus1[] = {
        1/P[0], 0, 0, 0,
        0, 1/P[5], 0, 0,
        0, 0, 0, 1/P[14],
        0, 0, 1/P[11], -(P[10]/ (P[11]*P[14]))
    };
    //clip -> view
    GLfloat v[] = {
        Pminus1[0] * n[0] + Pminus1[1] * n[1] + Pminus1[2] * n[2] + Pminus1[3] * n[3],
        Pminus1[4] * n[0] + Pminus1[5] * n[1] + Pminus1[6] * n[2] + Pminus1[7] * n[3],
        Pminus1[8] * n[0] + Pminus1[9] * n[1] + Pminus1[10] * n[2] + Pminus1[11] * n[3],
        Pminus1[12] * n[0] + Pminus1[13] * n[1] + Pminus1[14] * n[2] + Pminus1[15] * n[3]
    };
    //view -> world
    GLfloat Rt[] = {
        mv[0], mv[4], mv[8],
        mv[1], mv[5], mv[9],
        mv[2], mv[6], mv[10]
    };
    GLfloat tPrime[] = {
        Rt[0] * mv[3] + Rt[1] * mv[7] + Rt[2] * mv[11],
        Rt[3] * mv[3] + Rt[4] * mv[7] + Rt[5] * mv[11],
        Rt[6] * mv[3] + Rt[7] * mv[7] + Rt[8] * mv[11]
    };
    GLfloat Mminus1[] = {
        Rt[0], Rt[1], Rt[2], -(tPrime[0]),
        Rt[3], Rt[4], Rt[5], -(tPrime[1]),
        Rt[6], Rt[7], Rt[8], -(tPrime[2]),
        0, 0, 0, 1
    };
    //point in world space
    GLfloat w[] = {
        Mminus1[0] * v[0] + Mminus1[1] * v[1] + Mminus1[2] * v[2] + Mminus1[3] * v[3],
        Mminus1[4] * v[0] + Mminus1[5] * v[1] + Mminus1[6] * v[2] + Mminus1[7] * v[3],
        Mminus1[8] * v[0] + Mminus1[9] * v[1] + Mminus1[10] * v[2] + Mminus1[11] * v[3],
        Mminus1[12] * v[0] + Mminus1[13] * v[1] + Mminus1[14] * v[2] + Mminus1[15] * v[3]
    };
    //r = a + t(w - a)
    GLfloat a[] = {0.0f, -0.1f, 0.0f};
    GLfloat wminusa[] = {w[0] - a[0], w[1] - a[1], w[2] - a[2]};
    vector[0] = a[0];
    vector[1] = a[1],
    vector[2] = a[2];
    vector[3] = w[0];
    vector[4] = w[1];
    vector[5] = -10.0f;
    //3 non-colinear points on the plane 
    GLfloat p1[] = {rect.origin.x, rect.origin.y, 0};
    GLfloat p2[] = {rect.origin.x + rect.size.width, rect.origin.y, 0};
    GLfloat p3[] = {rect.origin.x + rect.size.width, rect.origin.y + rect.size.height, 0};
    //location plane normal vector, Ax + By + Cz + D = 0
    GLfloat lp[] = {
        p1[1] * (p2[2] - p3[2]) + p2[1] * (p3[2] - p1[2]) + p3[1] * (p1[2] - p2[2]),
        p1[2] * (p2[0] - p3[0]) + p2[2] * (p3[0] - p1[0]) + p3[2] * (p1[0] - p2[0]),
        p1[0] * (p2[1] - p3[1]) + p2[0] * (p3[1] - p1[1]) + p3[0] * (p1[1] - p2[1]),
        -(p1[0] * (((p2[1] * p3[2]) - (p3[1] * p2[2]))) + p2[0] * (((p3[1] * p1[2]) - (p1[1] * p3[2]))) + p3[0] * (((p1[1] * p2[2]) - (p2[1] * p1[2]))))
    };
    GLfloat PnRd = (lp[0] * wminusa[0]) + (lp[1] * wminusa[1]) + (lp[2] * wminusa[2]);
    if(PnRd != 0) {
        GLfloat PnR0D = -((lp[0] * a[0]) + (lp[1] * a[1]) + (lp[2] * a[2]) + lp[3]);
        if(PnR0D != 0) {
            GLfloat t = PnR0D / PnRd;
            if(t >= 0) {
                GLfloat p[] = {
                    a[0] + wminusa[0] * t,
                    a[1] + wminusa[1] * t,
                    a[2] + wminusa[2] * t
                };
                if(p[0] > rect.origin.x &&
                   p[0] < rect.origin.x + rect.size.width &&
                   p[1] > rect.origin.y &&
                   p[1] < rect.origin.y + rect.size.height)
                    NSLog(@"BOOM!!!");
            }
        }
    }
}