Tuesday 25 December 2012

JTS 1.13 Released

I'm to announce that JTS 1.13 has been released.  It's available for download from SourceForge.

There is a long list of new features, enhancements and bug fixes in this release:

Functionality Improvements

  • Changed GeometryFactory.createGeometry() to make a deep copy of the argument Geometry, using the CoordinateSequenceFactory of the factory
  • Added ability to specify a dimension in CoordinateArraySequence
  • Changed Geometry.getEnvelopeInternal() to return a copy of the cached envelope, to prevent modification
  • Added GeometryEditor.CoordinateSequenceOperation to allow easy editing of constituent CoordinateSequences
  • Added GeometryFactory.createPolygon convenience methods which do not require holes to be specified
  • Geometry overlay methods now return empty results as atomic types of appropriate dimension
  • Added RectangleLineIntersector to provide efficient rectangle-line intersection testing
  • Added getOrdinate and setOrdinate to Coordinate
  • Quadtree is Serializable
  • STRtree is Serializable
  • Added max, average and wrap functions to MathUtil
  • Improved WKTReader parse error reporting to report input line of error
  • Improved WKBReader to repair structurally-invalid input
  • Made TopologyPreservingSimplifier thread-safe
  • Added AbstractSTRtree.isEmpty() method
  • Added QuadTree.isEmpty() method
  • Added KdTree.isEmpty() method
  • Added decimation and duplicate point removal to ShapeWriter.
  • ScaledNoder now preserves Z values of input
  • Added instance methods for all Triangle static methods
  • Added CGAlgorithmsDD containing high-precision versions of some basic CG algorithms
  • Added IntersectionMatrix.isTrue() method for testing IM pattern matches
  • Added getRawCoordinates methods to PackedCoordinateSequence concrete classes
  • Modified Geometry.isSimple() to explicity check for simplicity for all types, and support GeometryCollections
  • Improved MCIndexSnapRounder to add nodes only where they are necessary
  • Added CoordinateArrays.removeNull() method
  • Enhanced GeometryEditor to handle null geometries returned from operation
  • Added WKBHExFileReader
  • Added Distance3D operation

Performance Improvements

  • Simplified & improved performance of RectangleIntersects by using new RectangleLineIntersector
  • In RandomPointsInGridBuilder eliminated redundant ArrayList usage
  • In PreparedPolygonIntersects and PreparedLineStringIntersects added check to avoid creating segment index if all test inputs are points
  • In AbstractSTRtree switched to using indexed list access for better performance than using iterators
  • In AbstractSTRtree freed inserted item array after index is built
  • Improved performance of Polygonizer for cases with many potential holes
  • Improved performance for some DD methods by making them final
  • Added fast filter for CGAlgorithmsDD.orientationIndex, and switched to self-operations for DD determinant
  • Changed STRtree.createNode() to use a static class for nodes
  • Changed QuadTree Node to use scalar x and y variables rather than a Coordinate to reduce memory allocation
  • Fixed PreparedGeometry concrete classes to be thread-safe.
  • Fixed SortedPackedIntervalRTree so that it is thread-safe.

Robustness Improvements

  • Switched to using DD extended-precision arithmetic to compute orientation predicate
  • CGAlgorithms.distanceLineLine() improved to be more robust and performant
  • Fixed robustness issue causing Empty Stack failure in ConvexHull for some nearly collinear inputs
  • CGAlgorithms.signedArea() uses a more accurate algorithm

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed Geometry.equalsExact() to avoid NPE when comparing empty and non-empty Points
  • Fixed CascadedPolygonUnion to discard non-polygonal components created during unioning, to avoid failures and provide more desirable behaviour
  • Fixed CentralEndpointIntersector to initialize result correctly
  • Fixed DelaunayTriangulationBuilder.extractUniqueCoordinates(Geometry) to avoid mutating the vertex order of the input Geometry
  • Fixed ConformingDelaunayTriangulationBuilder to allow non-disjoint site and constraint vertex sets
  • Fixed RandomPointsInGridBuilder point generation to use circle constraint correctly
  • Fixed Linear Referencing API to handle MultiLineStrings consistently, by always using the lowest possible index value, and by trimming zero-length components from results
  • Fixed bug in LocationIndexedLine and LengthIndexLine which was causing an assertion failure when the indexOfAfter() method was called with a constraint location which is at the end of the line
  • Fixed bug in STRtree.query(Envelope, ItemVisitor) causing an NPE when tree is empty
  • Fixed issue with creating zero-length edges during buffer topology building under fixed precision, by: adding filter to remove zero-length edges; using a better estimate of scale factor for reducing to fixed precision after initial failure.
  • Fixed TopologyPreservingSimplifier to return a valid result for closed LineStrings with large distance tolerances
  • Fixed TopologyPreservingSimplifier to return an empty result for an empty input
  • Fixed DouglasPeuckerSimplifier to return an empty result for an empty input
  • Fixed MinimumBoundingCircle to correctly compute circle for obtuse triangles.
  • Fixd GeometryPrecisionReducer to use input GeometryFactory when polygon topology is fixed
  • Fixed GeometryNoder bug that was failing to snap to end vertices of lines
  • Fixed Geometry.getCentroid() and Geometry.getInteriorPoint() to return POINT EMPTY for empty inputs
  • Fixed DelaunayTriangulationBuilder to correctly extract unique points
  • Fixed KdTree to correctly handle inserting duplicate points into an empty tree
  • Fixed LineSegment.projectionFactor() to handle zero-length lines (by returning Double.POSITIVE_INFINITY)
  • Fixed LocationIndexedLine to handle locations on zero-length lines
  • Fixed LengthIndexedLine and LocationIndexedLine to handle indexOfAfter() correctly
  • Fixed WKBReader to handle successive geometrys with different endianness
  • Fixed GeometricShapeFactory to correctly handle setting the centre point
  • Fixed GeometryFactory.createMultiPoint(CoordinateSequence) to handle sequences of dimension > 3

API Changes

  • Changed visibility of TaggedLineStringSimplifier back to public due to user demand

Testing

  • Added Performance Testing framework (PerformanceTestRunner and PerformanceTestCase)
  • Added named predicate tests to all Relate test cases


JTS TestBuilder

Functionality Improvements

  • Added segment index visualization styling
  • Improved Geometry Inspector
  • Added stream digitizing for Polygon and LineString tools
  • Added output of Test Case XML with WKB
  • Added Extract Component tool
  • Added Delete Vertices Or Components tool
  • Added Geometry Edit Panel pop-up menu, with operations
  • Added Halton sequence functions
  • Added sorting functions
  • Added function for selection of first N components
  • Added CGAlgorithms functions
  • Added ability to paste and load multiple WKBHex geometries

Performance Improvements

  • Using decimation substantially improves rendering time for large geometries.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed bug in saving XML test files

2 comments:

Arnaud Couturier (piiichan) said...

Congratulations Martin. I missed this Christmas gift :)

Still no plans for variable-width polygon buffers and polygon skeletons?

Thanks again for your continuous hard work!

Dr JTS said...

Thanks, Arnaud.

Alas, no immediate plans for variable-width polygons or polygon skeletons. Too many other things on my plate right now!