A cuboid is a solid figure consisting of six rectangular faces
that meet at right angles. A cube is a special form of cuboid, whose
faces are all squares. The constructor for the class Cuboid
follows the pattern familiar from the constructors for the plane
figures: The first argument is the center of the Cuboid
,
followed by three real
arguments for the height, width, and
depth, and then three more real
arguments for the angles of
rotation about the x, y, and z-axes. The Cuboid
is first
constructed with its center at the origin. Its width, height, and depth
are measured along the x, y, and z-axes respectively. If rotations are
specified, it is rotated about the x, y, z-axes in that order. Finally,
it is shifted such that its center comes to lie on its Point
argument, if the latter is not the origin.
If the width, height, and depth arguments are equal, the Cuboid
is a cube:
Cuboid c0(origin, 3, 3, 3, 0, 30); c0.draw();
Fig. 37.
In the following example, the Cuboid
is "filldrawn", so that
the lines dilineating the hidden surfaces of the Cuboid
are
covered.
Cuboid c1(origin, 3, 4, 5, 0, 30); c1.filldraw();
Fig. 38.