org.opengis.spatialschema.geometry.primitive
Interface Solid

All Superinterfaces:

Geometry, Primitive, TransfiniteSet

public interface Solid

extends Primitive

Basis for 3-dimensional geometry. The extent of a solid is defined by the boundary surfaces.

Version:

2.0

Author:

ISO/DIS 19107, OpenGIS® consortium

See Also:

PrimitiveFactory.createSolid(org.opengis.spatialschema.geometry.primitive.SolidBoundary)

UML identifier (abstract type): GM_Solid

Method Summary

double	getArea() Returns the sum of the surface areas of all of the boundary components of a solid.
SolidBoundary	getBoundary() Returns a sequence of sets of surfaces that limit the extent of this Solid.
double	getVolume() Returns the volume of this solid.

Methods inherited from interface Primitive

getComplexes, getContainedPrimitives, getContainingPrimitives, getProxy

Methods inherited from interface Geometry

getBuffer, getCentroid, getClosure, getConvexHull, getCoordinateDimension, getCoordinateReferenceSystem, getDimension, getDistance, getEnvelope, getMaximalComplex, getMbRegion, getRepresentativePoint, isCycle, isSimple, transform, transform

Methods inherited from interface TransfiniteSet

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

Method Detail

getBoundary

SolidBoundary getBoundary()

Returns a sequence of sets of surfaces that limit the extent of this Solid. These surfaces shall be organized into one set of surfaces for each boundary component of this Solid. Each of these shells shall be a cycle (closed composite surface without boundary).

NOTE: The exterior shell of a solid is defined only because the embedding coordinate space is always a 3D Euclidean one. In general, a solid in a bounded 3-dimensional manifold has no distinguished exterior boundary. In cases where "exterior" boundary is not well defined, all the shells of the solid boundary shall be listed as "interior".

The orientable surfaces that bound a solid shall be oriented outward – that is, the "top" of each surface as defined by its orientation shall face away from the interior of the solid. Each shell, when viewed as a composite surface, shall be a cycle.

Specified by:

getBoundary in interface Primitive

Returns:

The sets of positions on the boundary.

See Also:

Geometry.getMbRegion(), Geometry.getClosure(), Geometry.getBuffer(double), Geometry.getDistance(org.opengis.spatialschema.geometry.Geometry)

UML identifier (operation): boundary

getArea

double getArea()

Returns the sum of the surface areas of all of the boundary components of a solid.

Returns:

The area of this solid.

UML identifier (operation): area

getVolume

double getVolume()

Returns the volume of this solid. This is the volume interior to the exterior boundary shell minus the sum of the volumes interior to any interior boundary shell.

Returns:

The volume of this solid.

UML identifier (operation): volume