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Making a new filled symbol of > 4 vertices

To: idvdevelopers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Making a new filled symbol of > 4 vertices
From: Stuart Wier <wier@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 11:28:43 -0600

For a java package to extend the IDV I wish to make a subclass of MetSymbol that draws asymbol in the z=0 plane that is filled and has more than 4 vertices. The existing IDVcode shows how to make symbols of (unfilled) lines using VisADLineArray, and filledsymbols of of 3 and 4 vertices that using VisADTriangleArray and VisADQuadArray, andspecifing the normals to each edge. See for example ucar.visad.ShapeUtility.java. Howare filled symbols of N>4 vertices coded?


Stuart Wier

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