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03: Tran_Shutters

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In this model, the most interesting part is not the anchor of shutter, but the rest part of the shutter. One side of the shutter slides along the curve. Each shutter's anchor is located and indentified through its index number. For the rest part of the shutter, to cover the previous piece property, there are two conditions: covering on the previous piece (A) or snaping to previous piece's starting points and sticking out (B). How to distinguish these two conditions? You can draw two directions (direction 1 from the current shutter's start point to previous shutter's start point, and direction 2 from the current start point to the previous's endpoint) and get their cross product direction.      ... more on Design Patterns CA


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