org.opengis.spatialschema.geometry.primitive
Interface Shell

All Superinterfaces:

Complex, Composite, CompositeSurface, Geometry, OrientablePrimitive, OrientableSurface, Primitive, TransfiniteSet

@UML(identifier="GM_Shell",
     specification=ISO_19107)
public interface Shell
extends CompositeSurface

Represents a single connected component of a solid boundary. A shell consists of a number of references to orientable surfaces connected in a topological cycle (an object whose boundary is empty). Unlike a ring, a Shell's elements have no natural sort order. Like rings, Shells are simple.

Since:

GeoAPI 1.0

Version:

Abstract specification 5

See Also:

SolidBoundary, Ring

Method Summary

boolean

isSimple() Always returns true since shell objects are simples.

Methods inherited from interface CompositeSurface

getGenerators

Methods inherited from interface Complex

getElements, getSubComplexes, getSuperComplexes, isMaximal

Methods inherited from interface OrientableSurface

getBoundary, getComposite

Methods inherited from interface OrientablePrimitive

getOrientation, getPrimitive

Methods inherited from interface Primitive

getComplexes, getContainedPrimitives, getContainingPrimitives, getProxy

Method Detail

isSimple

boolean isSimple()

Always returns true since shell objects are simples.

Specified by:

isSimple in interface Geometry

Returns:

Always true.

See Also:

Geometry.isCycle()