org.gvsig.fmap.geom.primitive
Interface Ellipse

All Superinterfaces:

Comparable, Geometry, OrientablePrimitive, OrientableSurface, Primitive, Serializable, Shape, Surface

All Known Implementing Classes:

Ellipse2D, Ellipse2DZ

public interface Ellipse
extends Surface

An ellipse is the finite or bounded case of a conic section, the geometric shape that results from cutting a circular conical or cylindrical surface with an oblique plane (the other two cases being the parabola and the hyperbola). It is also the locus of all points of the plane whose distances to two fixed points add to the same constant.

Author:

Jorge Piera

See Also:

Full definition from Wikipedia

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from interface org.gvsig.fmap.geom.Geometry

Geometry.DIMENSIONS, Geometry.OPERATIONS, Geometry.SUBTYPES, Geometry.TYPES

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface org.gvsig.fmap.geom.Geometry

BEST, E, EXTENDED_GEOMSUBTYPE_OFFSET, EXTENDED_GEOMTYPE_OFFSET, N, NE, NW, S, SE, SELECTHANDLER, STRETCHINGHANDLER, SW, W

Method Summary

Point	getAxis1End() Returns the point where the first axis ends.
Point	getAxis1Start() Returns the point where the first axis starts.
double	getAxis2Dist() Returns the length of the second axis.
void	setPoints(Point axis1Start, Point axis1End, double axis2Length) Sets the values to define a ellipse.

Methods inherited from interface org.gvsig.fmap.geom.primitive.Surface

getSurfaceAppearance, setSurfaceAppearance

Methods inherited from interface org.gvsig.fmap.geom.primitive.OrientablePrimitive

addMoveToVertex, addVertex, addVertexes, closePrimitive, getCoordinateAt, getNumVertices, getVertex, insertVertex, removeVertex, setCoordinateAt, setGeneralPath, setVertex

Methods inherited from interface org.gvsig.fmap.geom.Geometry

area, buffer, centroid, cloneGeometry, contains, convertToWKB, convertToWKT, convexHull, coveredBy, crosses, difference, disjoint, distance, fastIntersects, getBounds2D, getDimension, getEnvelope, getGeneralPath, getGeometryType, getHandlers, getInternalShape, getPathIterator, getPathIterator, getShape, getShape, getType, intersection, intersects, intersects, invokeOperation, invokeOperation, isSimple, overlaps, perimeter, reProject, touches, transform, union, within

Methods inherited from interface java.awt.Shape

contains, contains, contains, contains, getBounds, intersects

Methods inherited from interface java.lang.Comparable

compareTo

Method Detail

setPoints

void setPoints(Point axis1Start,
               Point axis1End,
               double axis2Length)

Sets the values to define a ellipse.

Parameters:

axis1Start - The point where the first axis starts.

axis1End - The point where the first axis ends.

axis2Length - The length of the second axis.

getAxis1Start

Point getAxis1Start()

Returns the point where the first axis starts.

Returns:

The point where the first axis starts.

getAxis1End

Point getAxis1End()

Returns the point where the first axis ends.

Returns:

The point where the first axis ends.

getAxis2Dist

double getAxis2Dist()

Returns the length of the second axis.

Returns:

The length of the second axis.