cartagen.tessellate

tessellate(extent, width, height=None, shape='square')

Create a tessellation of cells of a given shape.

This function creates a tessellation on the provided extent with cells of the provided shape.

Parameters:

• extent (list of float) – The extent of the area to tessellate. Must be of the form [ xmin, ymin, xmax, ymax ]

• width (float) – Width of the grid.

• height (float, optional) – Height of the grid. If set to None, the height equals the width.

• shape (str, optional) – Shape of the grid cells, can be ‘square’, ‘diamond’, ‘hexagonal’.

Returns:

list of Polygon

See also

partition_grid

Partition objects using a grid of a given shape.

Examples

>>> tessellate([0, 0, 2, 1], 1)
[<POLYGON ((0 0, 1 0, 1 1, 0 1, 0 0))>, <POLYGON ((1 0, 2 0, 2 1, 1 1, 1 0))>]

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