/// <summary>
/// Returns true if each of the actual dimension symbols satisfies the
/// corresponding required dimension symbol.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="actualDimensionSymbols">
/// Nine dimension symbols to validate. Possible values
/// are {T, F, * , 0, 1, 2}.
/// </param>
/// <param name="requiredDimensionSymbols">
/// Nine dimension symbols to validate against. Possible values
/// are {T, F, * , 0, 1, 2}.
/// </param>
/// <returns>
/// true if each of the required dimension symbols encompass the
/// corresponding actual dimension symbol.
/// </returns>
public static bool Matches(string actualDimensionSymbols,
string requiredDimensionSymbols)
{
IntersectionMatrix m = new IntersectionMatrix(actualDimensionSymbols);
return(m.Matches(requiredDimensionSymbols));
}
/// <summary>
/// Adds one matrix to another.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="input">the matrix to Add
/// </param>
/// <remarks>
/// Addition is defined by taking the maximum dimension value of
/// each position in the summand matrices.
/// </remarks>
public void Add(IntersectionMatrix input)
{
if (input == null)
{
throw new ArgumentNullException("input");
}
for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
{
for (int j = 0; j < 3; j++)
{
SetAtLeast(i, j, input.GetValue(i, j));
}
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Creates an IntersectionMatrix with the same elements as
/// other.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="other">
/// An IntersectionMatrix to copy.
/// </param>
public IntersectionMatrix(IntersectionMatrix other) : this()
{
matrix[LocationType.Interior][LocationType.Interior] =
other.matrix[LocationType.Interior][LocationType.Interior];
matrix[LocationType.Interior][LocationType.Boundary] =
other.matrix[LocationType.Interior][LocationType.Boundary];
matrix[LocationType.Interior][LocationType.Exterior] =
other.matrix[LocationType.Interior][LocationType.Exterior];
matrix[LocationType.Boundary][LocationType.Interior] =
other.matrix[LocationType.Boundary][LocationType.Interior];
matrix[LocationType.Boundary][LocationType.Boundary] =
other.matrix[LocationType.Boundary][LocationType.Boundary];
matrix[LocationType.Boundary][LocationType.Exterior] =
other.matrix[LocationType.Boundary][LocationType.Exterior];
matrix[LocationType.Exterior][LocationType.Interior] =
other.matrix[LocationType.Exterior][LocationType.Interior];
matrix[LocationType.Exterior][LocationType.Boundary] =
other.matrix[LocationType.Exterior][LocationType.Boundary];
matrix[LocationType.Exterior][LocationType.Exterior] =
other.matrix[LocationType.Exterior][LocationType.Exterior];
}
