Subject: Re: [geometry] breaking change on transform strategies
From: Barend Gehrels (barend_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-12-04 16:27:42
Hi Bruno,
Bruno Lalande wrote On 30-11-2013 22:27:
> Hi Bernhard,
>
> What I do not yet understand, is why there are two dimension
> parameters. If
> this can indeed be used with different source and target
> dimensions, then I
> think the documentation should explain what happens if the
> dimensions are
> unequal, because I cannot think of a "standard" behaviour for that.
>
>
> Yep, I seem to remember having seen that in the code - it's possible
> and valid to have a 2D and a 3D point. Not sure how it's handled,
> Barend can probably explain. Barend, given such a usage is quite
> infrequent maybe we can make the 2nd one optional? (i.e. equal to the
> first one by default)
Yes, good idea. Indeed it is possible to go from 2D to 3D or v.v., and
indeed it is not frequent.
Regards, Barend