Thanks Sanjay. I'm embarrassed at asking a question that had already been answered in the archives. I hate it when people do that ;-) Unfortunately I didn't see any good means for searching through the archives other than downloading each individual month's worth of archives and looking through manually. Would you happen to know the rough timeframe that the messages you speak of were being posted?
On 8/1/07, Sanjay Jena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Rick, > > that's a question i had during my graduaton thesis last year. Here comes the > answer of Martin. > > "The overlay algorithm is not based on any particular published work, but is > my own design. It does follow a fairly well-established approach (build a > fully noded graph, label it appropriately, and extract the desired linework > from it). I've incorporated various enhancements to improve robustness and > performance. > > I would imagine a decent library would be able to obtain the reference > given. There are several other good papers out there, mostly variations of > the same basic approach." > You can find the whole mails in the mailing list archives. > > Regards, > Sanjay > > > > On 8/1/07, Rick Zoolker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > OK, thorough digging through the code I think I have a somewhat > > reasonable understanding as to what is going on algorithmically in the > > boolean operations (e.g. Union, Intersection, etc), however I'm > > wondering if the algorithm used here is based on something that has > > had a more thorough analysis like an academic paper or a writup > > somewhere. I couldn't find any references to papers in the javadoc or > > in the documentation set. > > > > -Rick > > _______________________________________________ > > jts-devel mailing list > > jts-devel@lists.jump-project.org > > http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/jts-devel > > > > > > -- > Sanjay Dominik Jena > > Cell phone: +55 21 82886322 > _______________________________________________ > jts-devel mailing list > jts-devel@lists.jump-project.org > http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/jts-devel > > _______________________________________________ jts-devel mailing list jts-devel@lists.jump-project.org http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/jts-devel
