[vtk-developers] vtkMath::Dot2D

[Dean Inglis]

sorry, possible objection here.  Use case scenario: I might be
using vtkContourWidget with 2D contours defined in an
x-y plane.  The widget stores all its node coords as
3 tuples accessable via a vtkPolyData's vtkPoints.
I might want to compute the dot product on sequential
point pairs in a tangent vector calculation and it
would be nice to not have to convert every point to a
2 tuple.

Dean

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Doria" <daviddoria+vtk at gmail.com>
Cc: "VTK Developers" <vtk-developers at vtk.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: [vtk-developers] vtkMath::Dot2D


On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Moreland, Kenneth <kmorel at sandia.gov> wrote:
> My guess would be that that is a copy-paste error. Change it to 2-vectors
> is probably the right thing to do.
>
> AFAIK, the array declaration in a function/method argument is treated just
> like a pointer. C++ does not do any range checking. I think it just serves
> to help document what size array you expect.
>
> -Ken

This actually seems to be the case with almost all of the 2D vtkMath
functions. I'm going to change them all as Ken suggested. Any
objections?

Thanks,

David
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