Package org.apache.sis.referencing.operation.matrix
- The class specializations for such small matrices.
- Methods specific to coordinate systems support like
Matrices.createTransform(…)
. - Matrix inversions tolerant to
NaN
values and non-square matrix in some situations.
This package provides public implementations of small square matrices, with size ranging from 1×1 to 4×4. Those implementations are made public because in many cases, the user know that (s)he is working with (for example) three-dimensional Coordinate Reference Systems (CRS). If the number of CRS dimensions is fixed to 3, then affine transforms between those CRS can be represented by 4×4 matrices, and the derivatives of those transforms can be represented by 3×3 matrices. Since the user know the matrices size, (s)he can use the specific implementation and read or write directly the mrow column field.
Example: in the two dimensional case, an affine transform from a map projection (units in metres) to the screen (units in pixels) can be performed by the following matrix multiplication:

Extended floating point precision
This package uses extended floating point precision for most arithmetic operations like matrix multiplications and inversions. SIS needs extended precision because affine transforms concatenations like conversion from degrees to radians, followed by some operations, followed by conversion back from radians to degrees, are very frequent. Without extended precision, we often obtain values like 0.99999… where we would expect an identity transform. The usual workaround - namely comparing the floating point values with a small epsilon tolerance value - is dangerous in this particular case because datum shifts, when expressed as a matrix from their Bursa-Wolf parameters, are very close to the identity transform.The current implementation uses double-double arithmetic. However, this may change in any future SIS version.
Related projects
This package is not designed for large matrices, and is rooted inorg.apache.sis.referencing
for making clearer that this is not a general-purpose library.
For computational intensive calculations, better guarantees on numerical stability, sparse matrices support
and more, consider using an dedicated library like jblas instead.
The Vecmath library shares similar goals than MatrixSIS
.
Like SIS, Vecmath is optimized for small matrices of interest for 2D and 3D graphics.
- Since:
- 0.4
- Version:
- 1.3
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ClassDescriptionBridge between
Matrix
and Java2DAffineTransform
instances.A two dimensional array of numbers.Matrix
factory methods and utilities.AMatrix
able to perform some operations of interest to Spatial Information Systems (SIS).Thrown when two matrices cannot be added or multiplied because the sizes do not match.Thrown when a matrix cannot be inverted.A matrix which is not square.Computes the value of U which solvesX
× U =Y
.A unmodifiable view of a matrix.