naming things (here we go again) - contour edition

clankill3r

Once again I have problem naming things or how it should behave.

Let's say we have this square:

And we have this one:

And we have this shape:

The last one is not a contour, since it's open right? Or is it called an open contour? I can find things on the internet about open contours but not a lot so those people might be wrong. I think strictly speaking a contour has to be closed, else it's not a contour of something. Correct me if i'm wrong.

Anyway. I'm creating methods like:

svgMethods.getVertices(s, i);

Where s is the PShape and i is the targetContour. However, that would mean we should not return anything for the last picture since that's not a contour. Or should I just consider it all to be a contour?

Or is there a name for what I want? I hope you guys can follow me :D

Chrisir

frame?

clankill3r

No :) I should be more clear. It can be whatever SVG or shape created with createShape(). So also a bezier path etc.

PhiLho

I rarely, if ever, saw the name "contour" used for shapes. Indeed, it might be clearer to call them open or closed paths.

Bird

I do nc programming and in my little world we refer to them as open and closed "Boundaries". That is the term used in NX. I've also seen the name "Feature" used in Esprit, both open and closed there, as well. "Silhouette" or "Profile" is also an option.

quark

PhiLho had it right 'open and closed paths'