From 6e7e008ed35ccc8a492d8f13b7a7e162f9416327 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mtarini <marco.tarini@isti.cnr.it>
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 03:08:02 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] first commit

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+/****************************************************************************
+* VCGLib                                                            o o     *
+* Visual and Computer Graphics Library                            o     o   *
+*                                                                _   O  _   *
+* Copyright(C) 2004                                                \/)\/    *
+* Visual Computing Lab                                            /\/|      *
+* ISTI - Italian National Research Council                           |      *
+*                                                                    \      *
+* All rights reserved.                                                      *
+*                                                                           *
+* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify      *   
+* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by      *
+* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or         *
+* (at your option) any later version.                                       *
+*                                                                           *
+* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,           *
+* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of            *
+* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the             *
+* GNU General Public License (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt)          *
+* for more details.                                                         *
+*                                                                           *
+****************************************************************************/
+/****************************************************************************
+  History
+
+$Log: not supported by cvs2svn $
+
+****************************************************************************/
+
+#ifndef __VCGLIB_SPACE
+#define __VCGLIB_SPACE
+
+
+#include <vcg/math/linear.h>
+
+namespace vcg {
+/*@{*/
+    /**
+        This class represents the interface for any spatial objects.
+				(points, lines, rays, segments, planes, triangles, axis aligned box).
+				It consists in (the declaration of) a set of functions and types that
+				each such object mush have. 
+     */
+
+template <int N, class S> class Point;
+template <int N, class S> class Box;
+
+template <int N, class S> 
+class Space {
+public:
+	/// Dimension is a constant determines the dimension of the space.
+	enum {Dimension=N};
+	/// the type used as scalar. Typically, float or double, but char or int are possible too.
+	typedef S          ScalarType;
+	/// type used as point Type
+	typedef Point<N,S> PointType;
+	/// the ...
+	typedef ParamType;
+
+	/// returns the bounding box of the object
+	Box<N,S> const BBox() const; 
+
+	/// given a point, return the closest point
+	PointType ClosestPoint(PointType const &p) const;
+
+	PointType LocalToGlobal(ParamType);
+
+	ParamType GlobalToLocal(ParamType);
+}; // end class definition
+
+/*@}*/
+
+
+
+} // end namespace
+#endif
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