differencedifferenceDifferenceDifferencedifference (Operator)

Name

differencedifferenceDifferenceDifferencedifference — Calculate the difference of two regions.

Signature

Description

differencedifferenceDifferenceDifferencedifference calculates the set-theoretic difference of two regions: (Regions in Region) - (Regions in Sub) The resulting region is defined as the input region (RegionRegionRegionregionregion) with all points from SubSubSubsubsub removed. Note that, internally, all regions of SubSubSubsubsub are united to a single region before the differences between the individual regions of RegionRegionRegionregionregion and the united region are calculated.

Attention

Empty regions are valid for both parameters. On output, empty regions may result. The value of the system flag 'store_empty_region'"store_empty_region""store_empty_region""store_empty_region""store_empty_region" determines the behavior in this case.

Execution Information

• Multithreading type: reentrant (runs in parallel with non-exclusive operators).
• Multithreading scope: global (may be called from any thread).
• Processed without parallelization.

Parameters

* provides the region X without the points in Y
difference(X,Y,RegionDifference)

/* provides the region X without the points in Y */
difference(X,Y,&RegionDifference);

* provides the region X without the points in Y
difference(X,Y,RegionDifference)

* provides the region X without the points in Y
difference(X,Y,RegionDifference)

Complexity

Let be the number of regions, be their average area, and be the total area of all regions in SubSubSubsubsub. Then the runtime complexity is .

Result

differencedifferenceDifferenceDifferencedifference always returns the value 2 ( H_MSG_TRUE) . The behavior in case of empty input (no regions given) can be set via set_system('no_object_result',<Result>)set_system("no_object_result",<Result>)SetSystem("no_object_result",<Result>)SetSystem("no_object_result",<Result>)set_system("no_object_result",<Result>) and the behavior in case of an empty input region via set_system('empty_region_result',<Result>)set_system("empty_region_result",<Result>)SetSystem("empty_region_result",<Result>)SetSystem("empty_region_result",<Result>)set_system("empty_region_result",<Result>). If necessary, an exception is raised.

Possible Predecessors

thresholdthresholdThresholdThresholdthreshold, connectionconnectionConnectionConnectionconnection, regiongrowingregiongrowingRegiongrowingRegiongrowingregiongrowing, pouringpouringPouringPouringpouring, class_ndim_normclass_ndim_normClassNdimNormClassNdimNormclass_ndim_norm

Possible Successors

select_shapeselect_shapeSelectShapeSelectShapeselect_shape, disp_regiondisp_regionDispRegionDispRegiondisp_region

See also

intersectionintersectionIntersectionIntersectionintersection, union1union1Union1Union1union1, union2union2Union2Union2union2, complementcomplementComplementComplementcomplement, symm_differencesymm_differenceSymmDifferenceSymmDifferencesymm_difference

Module

Foundation