org.tinfour.common

Interface IProcessUsingTin

All Known Subinterfaces:

IIncrementalTinNavigator, IInterpolatorOverTin, INeighborEdgeLocator, INeighborhoodPointsCollector

All Known Implementing Classes:

InverseDistanceWeightingInterpolator, NaturalNeighborInterpolator, TriangularFacetInterpolator

public interface IProcessUsingTin

An interface for classes that perform processing on a TIN.

Support for Parallel Processing

The design of use of this interface is intended to support cases where multiple instances of a processing class may run in parallel (in order to expedite completion). For performance reasons very few of the methods in the TIN-processing collection use synchronization. Therefore, parallel processing requires that the TIN be accessed on a read-only basis and not be modified by any other thread while the processing methods are running.

A class implementing this interface must not modify the TIN in any way.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	resetForChangeToTin() Reset the processor due to a change in the TIN.

Method Detail

resetForChangeToTin

void resetForChangeToTin()

Reset the processor due to a change in the TIN. For processors that maintain state data about the TIN in order to expedite processing, this method provides a way to clear the state data.

Resetting the state data unnecessarily may result in a performance reduction when processing a large number of operations, but is otherwise harmless. Implementations are expected to be able to run properly after a reset is called.