GeneralProjection extends Projection

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GeneralProjection extends Projection

A general projection can be specified by providing two methods; a source method runs on each member of a source population and decides which entities in the dest population it wants to connect to; a dest method has access to the internals of the destination entity and decides which requests to fulfill.

**Figure 14:** Classes used for a general projection.
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**Figure 15:** Example general projection - all to all.
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GeneralProjection(Population srcPop, Population destPop, SourceMethod sm, DestMethod dm)

The SourceMethod can be written in a script language; it decides which members of the dest population it might want to connect to (maybe looking up population methods to check for candidate entities within range of this entity, or selecting an entity at random, or possibly broadcasting a request to all members of the destination population).

Fred Howell
8/15/1999