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package org.locationtech.jts.triangulate.quadedge;

/**
 * Interface for classes which process triangles visited during traversals of a
 * {@link QuadEdgeSubdivision}
 * 
 * @author Martin Davis
 */
public interface TraversalVisitor {
    /**
     * Visits a triangle during a traversal of a {@link QuadEdgeSubdivision}. An implementation of
     * this method may perform processing on the current triangle. It must also decide whether a
     * neighbouring triangle should be added to the queue so its neighbours are visited. Often it
     * will perform processing on the neighbour triangle as well, in order to mark it as processed
     * (visited) and/or to determine if it should be visited. Note that choosing not to
     * visit the neighbouring triangle is the terminating condition for many traversal algorithms.
     * In particular, if the neighbour triangle has already been visited, it should not be visited
     * again.
     * 
     * @param currTri the current triangle being processed
     * @param edgeIndex the index of the edge in the current triangle being traversed
     * @param neighbTri a neighbouring triangle next in line to visit
     * @return true if the neighbour triangle should be visited
     */
    boolean visit(QuadEdgeTriangle currTri, int edgeIndex, QuadEdgeTriangle neighbTri);
}