[Lib2geom-devel] allNearestTimes()

[Krzysztof K. <twe...@gm...>]

This method is a little pointless, because it will return more than
one point only if they are at exactly the same distance. Due to
limited precision of doubles, this will only happen in very specific
circumstances - basically only if someone deliberately constructs the
object and the point with carefully chosen values. It's nearly
impossible to get more than one result by manipulating shapes on the
screen. Therefore arbitrarily picking one of the points doesn't change
much.

It would be more useful if the method accepted a tolerance parameter
and returned the local minima of each subset of the shape not further
than this tolerance from the true nearest time. The attached image
explains this.

Regards, Krzysztof