Class EnvelopeDistance

Utility functions for working with Envelopes.

Inheritance

object

EnvelopeDistance

Inherited Members

object.Equals(object)

object.Equals(object, object)

object.GetHashCode()

object.GetType()

object.MemberwiseClone()

object.ReferenceEquals(object, object)

object.ToString()

Namespace: NetTopologySuite.Index.Strtree

Assembly: NetTopologySuite.dll

Syntax

public class EnvelopeDistance

Methods

MaximumDistance(Envelope, Envelope)

Computes the maximum distance between the points defining two envelopes. This is the distance between the two corners which are farthest apart.

Note that this is NOT the MinMax distance, which is a tighter bound on the distance between the points in the envelopes.

Declaration

public static double MaximumDistance(Envelope env1, Envelope env2)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
Envelope	env1	An envelope
Envelope	env2	An envelope

Returns

Type	Description
double	The maximum distance between the points defining the envelopes

MinMaxDistance(Envelope, Envelope)

Computes the Min-Max Distance between two Envelopes. It is equal to the minimum of the maximum distances between all pairs of edge segments from the two envelopes. This is the tight upper bound on the distance between geometric items bounded by the envelopes.

Theoretically this bound can be used in the R-tree nearest-neighbour branch-and-bound search instead of MaximumDistance(Envelope, Envelope). However, little performance improvement is observed in practice.

Declaration

public static double MinMaxDistance(Envelope a, Envelope b)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
Envelope	a	An envelope
Envelope	b	An envelope

Returns

Type	Description
double	The min-max-distance between the envelopes