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  • /**
     * This file is part of LibLaserCut.
     * Copyright (C) 2011 - 2013 Thomas Oster <thomas.oster@rwth-aachen.de>
     * RWTH Aachen University - 52062 Aachen, Germany
     *
     * LibLaserCut is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
     * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
     * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
     * (at your option) any later version.
     *
     * LibLaserCut is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
     * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
     * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
     * GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
     *
     * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
     * along with LibLaserCut. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
     *
     */
    package com.t_oster.liblasercut.vectoroptimizers;
    
    import java.util.Collections;
    import java.util.Comparator;
    import java.util.LinkedList;
    import java.util.List;
    
    /**
     *
     * @author Thomas Oster <thomas.oster@rwth-aachen.de>
     */
    public class SmallestFirstVectorOptimizer extends VectorOptimizer
    {
    
      /**
       * cut smaller parts first, bigger parts later
       * Heuristic is explained below...
       */
      class SmallerComparator implements Comparator<Element>
      {
        // compare by XMin a>b
        @Override
        public int compare(Element a, Element b)
        {
          Integer av = new Integer(getValue(a));
          Integer bv = new Integer(getValue(b));
          return av.compareTo(bv);
        }
    
        int getValue(Element e)
        {
          return (e.boundingBox().getXMax() - e.boundingBox().getXMin()) * (e.boundingBox().getYMax() - e.boundingBox().getYMin());
        }
      }
    
      @Override
      protected List<Element> sort(List<Element> e)
      {
        List<Element> result = new LinkedList<Element>();
        if (e.isEmpty())
        {
          return result;
        }
    
        result.addAll(e);
        /**
         * HEURISTIC:
         * this algorithm is based on the following observation:
         * let S and B be rectangles, S smaller than B
         * for explanations, assume that:
         * - the X-axis goes from left to right
         * - the Y-axis goes from bottom to top
         *
         * ---------------- B: bigger rectangle
         * | |
         * | ---- |
         * y axis | | S| |
         * ^ | ---- |
         * | | |
         * | ----------------
         * |
         * ------> x axis
         *
         * we get the rectangles sorted by size
         * 1. S
         * 2. B
         */
        // do the work:
        Collections.sort(result, new SmallerComparator());
    
        // the result is now mostly sorted
        return result;
      }
    }