Package org.openscience.cdk.geometry.surface

Class Tessellate

java.lang.Object
org.openscience.cdk.geometry.surface.Tessellate
public class Tessellate extends Object
Performs a tessellation of the unit sphere. This class generates the coordinates of the triangles that will tessellate the unit sphere. The algorithm is recursive subdivision of an initial representation which can be tetrahedral, octahedral or icosahedral. The default is icosahedral. The number of points generated depends on the level of subdivision. The default is 4 levels and with the initial icosahedral representation this gives 1536 points.

The constants for the tetrahedral and icosahedral representations were taken from http://eeg.sourceforge.net/eegdoc/eeg_toolbox/sphere_tri.html

Author:
Rajarshi Guha
Created on:
2005-05-08

  • Constructor Details

    • Tessellate

      public Tessellate()

    • Tessellate

      public Tessellate(String type, int level)

  • Method Details

    • doTessellate

      public void doTessellate()

    • getNumberOfTriangles

      public int getNumberOfTriangles()

    • getTessAsTriangles

      public Triangle[] getTessAsTriangles()

    • getTessAsPoint3ds

      public javax.vecmath.Point3d[] getTessAsPoint3ds()