26 Feb
2009
26 Feb
'09
8:02 p.m.
Simonson, Lucanus J wrote:
I believe design decisions should lead to a library that is convenient to use rather than convenient to implement.
I agree with Luke on this one. I have written a contouring algorithm which produces either polygons for filling or polylines for stroking. The filling will work just fine if I use the even-odd filling rule regardless of the orientation of any individual subpolygon. However, I'd hate to have to produce a certain winding rule for the exterior and the holes in order to use the same data for more complicated GIS calculations such as logical operations and buffering. IMHO it should be just as easy as choosing to use the even-odd filling rule instead of the winding rule. --> Mika Heiskanen