Memory Methods on Explicit

 

   (EXPLICIT * ) GRAPE(Explicit, "new-instance")(name)

CLASS * Explicit
char * name

Create an instance of class Explicit with name name by calling "new-instance" on the superclass and creating the Domain_Parm instance domain_parm.

   GRAPE(explicit, "free")()

EXPLICIT * explicit

Delete a Explicit instance. All memory is freed by calling "list-free", deleting domain_parm and calling "free" on the superclass. See 5.4.4.1 for details on "delete"/"free".

     

EXPLICIT * explicit

"list-alloc" computes the total number of points and boundaries needed for all explicit surfaces patches from the domain_parm data -- which has to be initialized before "list-alloc" is called -- and then calls the "list-alloc" method on the superclass Surface. "list-free" just calls "list-free" on the superclass and on domain_parm.

In contrast to Surface_Build where each surface patch is stored in a separate Chain object all Explicit patches are stored in a single instance.