CPLoutercontour

by Tim C. Lueth, SG-Lib Toolbox: SolidGeometry 5.6 - CPL/Closed Polygon Lists
Introduced first in SolidGeometry 3.5, Creation date: 2017-02-28, Last change: 2025-09-14

returns for a CPL the outer contour wrt cw/ccw-orientation

Description

Is used after simple growing of self crossing contours exist. Use CPLbuffer and CPLofouterregionboundary in other cases.
Uses PLoutercontour but returns only the outer CPL. The outer/inner contoru decision is made by selecting the cw/ccw-orientation of each contour.

See also CPLofouterregionboundary which returns for embedded contours the outer one

See Also: CPLofouterregionboundary , PLoutercontour , CPLgrow

Example Illustration

 missing image of CPLoutercontour(CPL,out)

Syntax

NCPL=CPLoutercontour([CPL,out])

Input Parameter

CPL: Closed Polygon Line; separated using NaN NaN
out: returns the FIRST outer contour if true; if false the first inner; default is true

Output Parameter

NCPL: New CPL

Examples


PLoutercontour(CPLgrow(CPLsample(19),4))
CPLoutercontour(CPLgrow(CPLsample(13),2))




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