Index to GrAL Packages

GrAL is partitioned from the beginning into manageable packages with (hopefully) minimized dependencies.

The recommended way of browsing the documentation is by (sub-) package hierarchy.

All components of GrAL are found in the namespace GrAL .

Here are the separate packages of GrAL:

Basic, non-grid related packages

Configuration package: collect comman make targets and variable, compiler config header etc.
Utilities package: Very basic stuff used by most other packages.
Sequence package: Contains some stuff for handling containers, sequences and algorithms.
ExternalControl package: Controling runtime parameters in a uniform and hierarchical way.
Geometry package: some geometric primitives, especially for 2D and 3D
GraphicsDevice package: Abstract interface to graphics output, mainly geomview/OOGL at the moment.
FunctionAlgebra package: An implemention of a function algebra, including function composition.

GrAL-Base package: Basis generic data structures and algorithms. This package is used by all other GrAL packages.
GrAL-Testing package. Used to test concrete grid components.

GrAL-Complex2D package: A simple 2D grid component for arbitrary polygonal cells
GrAL-Complex3D package: A grid component for 3D grids with arbitrary cells
GrAL-ComplexND package: Unstructured grids of arbitrary dimension

GrAL-Triang2D package: A grid component for 2D triangulations
GrAL-Triang3D package: A grid component for 3D triangulations (tetrahedrizations)

GrAL-Partitioning package: Generic components for grid partitioning.
GrAL-Geometry package: Geometric algorithms and data structures, like point location
GrAL-Measurement package: Components for quantitative measure of grids, such as mesh quality measures

GrAL-GMV-IO package: Components for output to GMV file format (3D and 2D versions).
GrAL-Geomview-IO package: Components for output to OFF file format used by Geomview
GrAL-VTK-Adapter package: Adapters for VTK grid data structures