Trait Coordinate

Source

pub trait Coordinate<V> {
    // Required methods
    fn dimension(&self) -> usize;
    fn coordinate(&self, index: usize) -> Result<&V, IndexError>;
}

Expand description

Provides a generalized interface for N-dimensional coordinate access.

This trait is agnostic to geometry and is designed to support both standard (Cartesian) coordinates and abstract representations such as:

Curved spacetime manifolds
Quaternionic rotations
Symbolic embeddings (e.g., logical coordinates)

The trait provides only index-based access and leaves axis naming, scaling, or metric behavior to higher-level abstractions.

§Example

use deep_causality::{Coordinate, IndexError};

struct Vec3D {
    x: f64,
    y: f64,
    z: f64,
}

impl Coordinate<f64> for Vec3D {
    fn dimension(&self) -> usize {
        3
    }

     fn coordinate(&self, index: usize) -> Result<&f64, IndexError> {
        match index {
            0 => Ok(&self.x),
            1 => Ok(&self.y),
            2 => Ok(&self.z),
            _ => Err(IndexError("Index out of bounds".to_string())),
        }
    }
}