The Box class implements a Region which represents a box with sides parallel to the axes of a Frame (i.e. an area which encloses a given range of values on each axis). A Box is similar to an Interval, the only real difference being that the Interval class allows some axis limits to be unspecified. Note, a Box will only look like a box if the Frame geometry is approximately flat. For instance, a Box centred close to a pole in a SkyFrame will look more like a fan than a box (the Polygon class can be used to create a box-like region close to a pole).
"
form"
is zero, this array should contain the
coordinates at the centre of the box. If "
form"
is one, it should contain the
coordinates at the corner of the box which is diagonally opposite the corner
specified by "
point2"
. "
uncertainty"
Region so that it is centred at the boundary point being considered. The
area covered by the shifted uncertainty Region then represents the uncertainty
in the boundary position. The uncertainty is assumed to be the same for all
points.
If supplied, the uncertainty Region must be of a class for which all instances are centro-symetric (e.g. Box, Circle, Ellipse, etc.) or be a Prism containing centro-symetric component Regions. A deep copy of the supplied Region will be taken, so subsequent changes to the uncertainty Region using the supplied pointer will have no effect on the created Box. Alternatively, a NULL Object pointer may be supplied, in which case a default uncertainty is used equivalent to a box 1.0E-6 of the size of the Box being created.
The uncertainty Region has two uses: 1) when the astOverlap function compares two Regions for equality the uncertainty Region is used to determine the tolerance on the comparison, and 2) when a Region is mapped into a different coordinate system and subsequently simplified (using astSimplify), the uncertainties are used to determine if the transformed boundary can be accurately represented by a specific shape of Region.
"
printf"
format specifiers identified by "
%"
symbols in the normal way. "
options"
string contains "
%"
format
specifiers, then an optional list of additional arguments may follow it in order to
supply values to be substituted for these specifiers. The rules for supplying
these are identical to those for the astSet function (and for the C "
printf"
function). A null Object pointer (AST__NULL) will be returned if this function is invoked with the AST error status set, or if it should fail for any reason.
"
int
status"
.