The
Shape
interface provides definitions for objects that represent some form of geometric shape. The
Shape
is described by a {@link PathIterator} object, which can express the outline of the
Shape
as well as a rule for determining how the outline divides the 2D plane into interior and exterior points. Each
Shape
object provides callbacks to get the bounding box of the geometry, determine whether points or rectangles lie partly or entirely within the interior of the
Shape
, and retrieve a
PathIterator
object that describes the trajectory path of the
Shape
outline.
Definition of insideness: A point is considered to lie inside a Shape
if and only if:
- it lies completely inside the
Shape
boundary or - it lies exactly on the
Shape
boundary and the space immediately adjacent to the point in the increasing X
direction is entirely inside the boundary or - it lies exactly on a horizontal boundary segment and the space immediately adjacent to the point in the increasing
Y
direction is inside the boundary.
The contains
and intersects
methods consider the interior of a Shape
to be the area it encloses as if it were filled. This means that these methods consider unclosed shapes to be implicitly closed for the purpose of determining if a shape contains or intersects a rectangle or if a shape contains a point.
@see java.awt.geom.PathIterator
@see java.awt.geom.AffineTransform
@see java.awt.geom.FlatteningPathIterator
@see java.awt.geom.GeneralPath
@version 1.19 06/24/98
@author Jim Graham
@since 1.2