org.opengis.geometry.primitive

Interface SolidBoundary

All Superinterfaces:

Boundary, Complex, Geometry, PrimitiveBoundary, TransfiniteSet

@UML(identifier="GM_SolidBoundary",
     specification=ISO_19107)
public interface SolidBoundary
extends PrimitiveBoundary

The boundary of solids. Solid boundaries are similar to surface boundaries. In normal 3-dimensional Euclidean space, one shell is distinguished as the exterior. In the more general case, this is not always possible.

NOTE: An alternative use of solids with no external shell would be to define "complements" of finite solids. These infinite solids would have only interior boundaries. If this specification is extended to 4D Euclidean space, or if 3D compact manifolds are used (probably not in geographic information), then other examples of bounded solids without exterior boundaries are possible.

Since:

GeoAPI 1.0

Author:

Martin Desruisseaux (IRD)

See Also:

SurfaceBoundary

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Shell	getExterior() Returns the exterior shell, or null if none.
Shell[]	getInteriors() Returns the interior shells.

Methods inherited from interface Boundary

isCycle

Methods inherited from interface Complex

getElements, getSubComplexes, getSuperComplexes, isMaximal

Methods inherited from interface Geometry

clone, distance, getBoundary, getBuffer, getCentroid, getClosure, getConvexHull, getCoordinateDimension, getCoordinateReferenceSystem, getDimension, getEnvelope, getMaximalComplex, getMbRegion, getPrecision, getRepresentativePoint, isMutable, isSimple, toImmutable, transform, transform

Methods inherited from interface TransfiniteSet

contains, contains, difference, equals, intersection, intersects, symmetricDifference, union

Method Detail

getExterior

@UML(identifier="exterior",
     obligation=MANDATORY,
     specification=ISO_19107)
Shell getExterior()

Returns the exterior shell, or null if none.

Returns:

The exterior shell, or null.

getInteriors

@UML(identifier="interior",
     obligation=MANDATORY,
     specification=ISO_19107)
Shell[] getInteriors()

Returns the interior shells.

Returns:

The interior shells. Never null, but may be an empty array.