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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                           |      *
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+* All rights reserved.                                                      *
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+* (at your option) any later version.                                       *
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+* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,           *
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+* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the             *
+* GNU General Public License (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt)          *
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+*                                                                           *
+****************************************************************************/
+/****************************************************************************
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+Revision 1.1  2005/07/06 08:02:27  cignoni
+Initial commit
+
+
+****************************************************************************/
+#ifndef __VCG_VERTEX_UPDATE_POSITION
+#define __VCG_VERTEX_UPDATE_POSITION
+
+namespace vcg {
+namespace vertex {
+
+/** \addtogroup vertexmesh */
+/*@{*/
+
+/// This class is used to update vertex position according to a transformation matrix.
+template <class VERTEX_CONTAINER>
+class UpdatePositionBase
+{
+
+public:
+	typedef typename VERTEX_CONTAINER::value_type::ScalarType     ScalarType;
+	typedef typename VERTEX_CONTAINER::iterator VertexIterator;
+
+	/// Multiply 
+	static void Matrix(VERTEX_CONTAINER &vert, const Matrix44<ScalarType> &mm)
+	{
+		VertexIterator vi;
+		for(vi= vert.begin();vi!= vert.end();++vi)
+						if(!(*vi).IsD()) (*vi).P()=mm*(*vi).cP();
+	}
+
+
+}; // end class
+
+template <class VertexMeshType>
+class UpdatePosition: public UpdatePositionBase<typename VertexMeshType::VertexContainer> {
+public:
+	typedef typename VertexMeshType::VertexContainer VertexContainer;
+
+	static void Matrix(VertexMeshType &vm, const Matrix44<ScalarType> &mm)
+	{ UpdatePositionBase<typename VertexMeshType::VertexContainer>::Matrix(vm.vert,mm);
+	}
+
+};
+
+
+}	// End namespace
+}	// End namespace
+
+
+#endif