Ubuntu Manpage: PPUNTR - generates and returns a set of trapezoids representing the interior of the

NAME

       PPUNTR - generates and returns a set of trapezoids representing the interior of the
       "union" polygon, which consists of all points that are inside either or both of the clip
       polygon and the subject polygon.

SYNOPSIS

       CALL PPUNTR (XCCP,YCCP,NCCP,XCSP,YCSP,NCSP,RWRK,IWRK,NWRK,URPT,IERR)

C-BINDING SYNOPSIS

       #include <ncarg/ncargC.h>

       void c_ppuntr(
            float *xccp,
            float *yccp,
            int nccp,
            float *xcsp,
            float *ycsp,
            int ncsp,
            float *rwrk,
            int *iwrk,
            int nwrk,
            int (*urpt_)(float *xcbl,
                         float *xcbr,
                         float *ycob,
                         float *dxle,
                         float *dxre,
                         float *ycot),
            int *ierr)

DESCRIPTION

XCCP (an input array of type REAL) is the X coordinate array for the clip polygon.

YCCP (an input array of type REAL) is the Y coordinate array for the clip polygon.

NCCP (an input expression of type INTEGER) is the number of points defining the
clip polygon.

XCSP (an input array of type REAL) is the X coordinate array for the subject
polygon.

YCSP (an input array of type REAL) is the Y coordinate array for the subject
polygon.

NCSP (an input expression of type INTEGER) is the number of points defining the
subject polygon.

RWRK (a scratch array, dimensioned NWRK, of type REAL) is a real workspace array.
Because of the way in which they are used, RWRK and IWRK may be EQUIVALENCEd
(and, to save space, they should be).

IWRK (a scratch array, dimensioned NWRK, of type INTEGER) is an integer workspace
array. Because of the way in which they are used, RWRK and IWRK may be
EQUIVALENCEd (and, to save space, they should be).

NWRK (an input expression of type INTEGER) is the length of the workspace array(s).
The routines that produce trapezoids use a lot less workspace than the ones
that produce polygons. The amount of space used at a particular time during
the execution of one of these routines is roughly ten or eleven times the
number of intersections of a horizontal "scan line" with the edge segments
making up the input polygons, plus about three times the number of points
above the current scan line that are "local minima". (A "local minimum" is a
point on one of the polygons that is connected to two other points on the
polygon having larger Y coordinates than its own). I have not yet developed a
rule of thumb for setting the value of NWRK. Ultimately, I would like to at
least put in an internal parameter that will tell one how much space was
actually used on a given call, but I have not yet done so.

URPT is the name of a user-provided routine to process the trapezoids. This name
must appear in an EXTERNAL statement in the routine that calls PPUNTR and the
routine itself must have the following form:

SUBROUTINE URPP (XCBL,XCBR,YCOB,DXLE,DXRE,YCOT)
...(code to process a trapezoid)...
RETURN
END

The bottom and top of the trapezoid are horizontal (parallel to the X axis);
the arguments XCBL and XCBR define the X coordinates of its bottom left and
bottom right corners, YCOB is the Y coordinate of its bottom edge, DXLE and
DXRE are the inverses (dx/dy) of the slopes of its left and right edges, and
YCOT is the Y coordinate of its top edge. The corners of the trapezoid are
therefore as follows: (XCBL,YCOB), (XCBR,YCOB), (XCBL+DXLE*(YCOT-YCOB),YCOT),
and (XCBR+DXRE*(YCOT-YCOB),YCOT).

IERR (an output variable of type INTEGER) is returned with the value zero if no
errors occurred in the execution of PPUNTR or with a small positive value if
an error did occur. The value 1 indicates that a degenerate clip polygon was
detected, the value 2 that a degenerate subject polygon was detected, and the
value 3 that the workspace provided was too small; values greater than 3
should be reported to the author, as they probably indicate some problem with
the algorithm. If IERR is returned non-zero, one can be sure that there have
been no calls to URPT only if IERR = 1 or 2; otherwise, some trapezoids
probably have been generated and delivered to URPT.

C-BINDING DESCRIPTION

       The C-binding argument descriptions are the same as the FORTRAN argument descriptions.

USAGE

       The FORTRAN statement

       CALL PPUNTR (XCCP,YCCP,NCCP,XCSP,YCSP,NCSP,RWRK,IWRK,NWRK,URPT,IERR)

       causes the formation of a union polygon (of the subject and clip polygons) and the
       delivery of trapezoids representing the interior of that polygon, one at a time, to the
       user-specified trapezoid-processing routine URPT.

EXAMPLES

       Use the ncargex command to see the following relevant examples: ppex01, tppack, c_ppex01.

ACCESS

       To use PPUNTR or c_ppuntr, load the NCAR Graphics libraries ncarg, ncarg_gks, and ncarg_c,
       preferably in that order.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 1987-2009
       University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
       The use of this Software is governed by a License Agreement.