rlaramee
Class CubeVertex

java.lang.Object
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public class CubeVertex

extends Vertex

Description A [cube|face] is made up of [8|4] vertices. Including a vertex class in the design allows flexibility in implementation.

start date Tue 14 Mar 00

Version:

1.0

Author:

Robert S Laramee

See Also:

Field Summary

private float	errorValue changing the error value to a short also changes the color that appears as uncertainty
private float	scalarValue changing the scalar value to a short causes a problem
private byte	xcoordinate
private byte	ycoordinate a short takes up 2 bytes
private byte	zcoordinate

Constructor Summary

CubeVertex()
vertex constructor(s)

Method Summary

float[]	getCoords()
float	getData()
float	getError()
float	getXcoord() This method must be over-ridden
float	getYcoord() This method must be over-ridden
float	getZcoord() This method must be over-ridden
boolean	isValid() /** An error check method called from Cube.isValid() It includes checking the scalarValue.
void	setData(float newValue)
void	setError(float newValue)
void	setXcoord(float newX) This method must be over-ridden
void	setYcoord(float newY) This method must be over-ridden
void	setZcoord(float newZ) This method must be over-ridden
java.lang.String	toString()

Methods inherited from class rlaramee.Vertex

isEqual

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

, clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, registerNatives, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

xcoordinate

private byte xcoordinate

ycoordinate

private byte ycoordinate

a short takes up 2 bytes

zcoordinate

private byte zcoordinate

scalarValue

private float scalarValue

changing the scalar value to a short causes a problem

errorValue

private float errorValue

changing the error value to a short also changes the color that appears as uncertainty

Constructor Detail

CubeVertex

public CubeVertex()

vertex constructor(s)

VisAD requires that the polygonList be initialized with Constant.BIG_NEG. We don't want to initialize all the entries with an integer value of 0 (by default) because this will be interpreted as all the vertices sharing polygon number 0 (by default)

This constructor is used when reading in the cube vertices from a file. These vertices are in block space so they have to be transformed from block space to VisAD space.

Method Detail

getXcoord

public float getXcoord()

Description copied from class: Vertex

This method must be over-ridden

Overrides:

getXcoord in class Vertex

Returns:

the x coordinate of this cube vertex

getYcoord

public float getYcoord()

Description copied from class: Vertex

This method must be over-ridden

Overrides:

getYcoord in class Vertex

Returns:

the y coordinate of this cube vertex

getZcoord

public float getZcoord()

Description copied from class: Vertex

This method must be over-ridden

Overrides:

getZcoord in class Vertex

Returns:

the z coordinate of this cube vertex

getCoords

public float[] getCoords()

Returns:

an array with the x, y, and z coordinates of this cube vertex

setXcoord

public void setXcoord(float newX)

Description copied from class: Vertex

This method must be over-ridden

Overrides:

setXcoord in class Vertex

Parameters:

newX - an x coordinate value

setYcoord

public void setYcoord(float newY)

Description copied from class: Vertex

This method must be over-ridden

Overrides:

setYcoord in class Vertex

Parameters:

newY - a y coordinate value

setZcoord

public void setZcoord(float newZ)

Description copied from class: Vertex

This method must be over-ridden

Overrides:

setZcoord in class Vertex

Parameters:

newZ - a z coordinate value

getData

public float getData()

Returns:

this cube vertex's scalar value

setData

public void setData(float newValue)

Parameters:

newValue - this cube vertex's scalar value

getError

public float getError()

Returns:

this cube vertex's error value

setError

public void setError(float newValue)

Parameters:

newValue - this cube vertex's error value

isValid

public boolean isValid()

/** An error check method called from Cube.isValid() It includes checking the scalarValue.

Returns:

TRUE if this is a valid cube vertex object

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object

Returns:

a string representation of this cube vertex