uk.ac.starlink.ttools.plot2
Interface PlotType

All Known Implementing Classes:
CubePlotType, PlanePlotType, SkyPlotType, SpherePlotType, TimePlotType

public interface PlotType

High-level description of a type of plot that can be drawn. All the information about plotting options and implementation is available from this interface, so that generic plot presentation components (like user plot windows) can be written with no hard-coded knowledge about whether they are plotting an all-sky plot, 3D scatter, histogram or whatever.

Since:
13 Feb 2013
Author:
Mark Taylor

Method Summary
 PaperTypeSelector getPaperTypeSelector()
          Returns an object which can provide graphics rendering functionality based on the required plot layers for this plot type.
 Plotter[] getPlotters()
          Returns a list of plotters that can be used to paint data on the surface.
 DataGeom[] getPointDataGeoms()
          Returns a list of one or more geometry variants which describe how user-supplied point coordinates map to the data space.
 SurfaceFactory getSurfaceFactory()
          Returns an object that can construct the plot surface including axis painting and geometry information.
 

Method Detail

getPointDataGeoms

DataGeom[] getPointDataGeoms()
Returns a list of one or more geometry variants which describe how user-supplied point coordinates map to the data space. The geoms returned from this method will return true from their DataGeom.hasPosition() method. If multiple values are returned, the first one may be used as some kind of default.

Returns:
data geom option list

getSurfaceFactory

SurfaceFactory getSurfaceFactory()
Returns an object that can construct the plot surface including axis painting and geometry information.

Returns:
surface factory

getPlotters

Plotter[] getPlotters()
Returns a list of plotters that can be used to paint data on the surface.

Returns:
plotter list

getPaperTypeSelector

PaperTypeSelector getPaperTypeSelector()
Returns an object which can provide graphics rendering functionality based on the required plot layers for this plot type.

Returns:
paper type selector


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