OCCT

// Created by: Kirill GAVRILOV
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#ifndef _NCollection_Lerp_HeaderFile
#define _NCollection_Lerp_HeaderFile

//! Simple linear interpolation tool (also known as mix() in GLSL).
//! The main purpose of this template class is making interpolation routines more readable.
template <class T>
class NCollection_Lerp
{
public:
  //! Compute interpolated value between two values.
  //! @param theStart first  value
  //! @param theEnd   second value
  //! @param theT normalized interpolation coefficient within [0, 1] range,
  //!             with 0 pointing to theStart and 1 to theEnd.
  static T Interpolate(const T& theStart, const T& theEnd, double theT)
  {
    T                aResult;
    NCollection_Lerp aLerp(theStart, theEnd);
    aLerp.Interpolate(theT, aResult);
    return aResult;
  }

public:
  //! Empty constructor
  NCollection_Lerp()
      : myStart(),
        myEnd()
  {
  }

  //! Main constructor.
  NCollection_Lerp(const T& theStart, const T& theEnd) { Init(theStart, theEnd); }

  //! Initialize values.
  void Init(const T& theStart, const T& theEnd)
  {
    myStart = theStart;
    myEnd   = theEnd;
  }

  //! Compute interpolated value between two values.
  //! @param theT normalized interpolation coefficient within [0, 1] range,
  //!             with 0 pointing to first value and 1 to the second value.
  //! @param[out] theResult  interpolated value
  void Interpolate(double theT, T& theResult) const
  {
    theResult = (1.0 - theT) * myStart + theT * myEnd;
  }

private:
  T myStart;
  T myEnd;
};

#endif // _NCollection_Lerp_HeaderFile