envelope (with strategy)

Calculates the envelope (with strategy) of a geometry.

Description

The free function envelope calculates the envelope (also known as axis aligned bounding box, aabb, or minimum bounding rectangle, mbr) of a geometry.

Synopsis

template<typename Geometry, typename Box, typename Strategy>
void envelope(Geometry const & geometry, Box & mbr, Strategy const & strategy)

Parameters

Type	Concept	Name	Description
Geometry const &	Any type fulfilling a Geometry Concept	geometry	A model of the specified concept
Box &	Any type fulfilling a Box Concept	mbr	A model of the specified Box Concept which is set to the envelope
Strategy const &	Any type fulfilling a Envelope Strategy Concept	strategy	The strategy which will be used for envelope calculations

Header

Either

#include <boost/geometry.hpp>

#include <boost/geometry/algorithms/envelope.hpp>

Conformance

The function envelope implements function Envelope from the OGC Simple Feature Specification.

Example

Shows how to calculate the bounding box of a polygon

#include <iostream>

#include <boost/geometry.hpp>
#include <boost/geometry/geometries/box.hpp>
#include <boost/geometry/geometries/point_xy.hpp>
#include <boost/geometry/geometries/polygon.hpp>


int main()
{
    typedef boost::geometry::model::d2::point_xy<double> point;

    boost::geometry::model::polygon<point> polygon;

    boost::geometry::read_wkt(
        "POLYGON((2 1.3,2.4 1.7,2.8 1.8,3.4 1.2,3.7 1.6,3.4 2,4.1 3,5.3 2.6,5.4 1.2,4.9 0.8,2.9 0.7,2 1.3)"
            "(4.0 2.0, 4.2 1.4, 4.8 1.9, 4.4 2.2, 4.0 2.0))", polygon);

    boost::geometry::model::box<point> box;
    boost::geometry::envelope(polygon, box);

    std::cout << "envelope:" << boost::geometry::dsv(box) << std::endl;


    return 0;
}

Output:

envelope:((2, 0.7), (5.4, 3))