Recent Developments in the Geometry Future Plans.pptVIP

3 September 2003 Geant4 Workshop 2003 - TRIUMF 3 September 2003 G.Cosmo, Recent Developments in the Geometry Future Plans Geant4 Workshop 2003 - TRIUMF Recent Developments in the Geometry Future Plans Gabriele Cosmo – CERN / EP Outline Developments in kernel modules since 2001 Logical / physical volumes, regions and stores Memory management optimisation Solids: reflections error’s dumping Sanity checks and overlaps detection Current development Divisions CSG revision and new specific twisted shapes Scheduled development activities in 2003 Open issues for discussion Major developments in kernel modules since 2001 Volumes, regions stores - 1 “Cuts by Region” technique implementation Introduced concept of Region (G4Region) and associated store to handle them Extended G4LogicalVolume to handle regions and implement concept of root-logical-volume Reviewed memory management Regions and root logical volumes A region represents a set of geometry volumes, typically of a sub-system Has a cut in range is associated. A different range cut for each particle is allowed in a region Special “root-region” associated to the world volume. Default cut assigned to the world volume Propagation of region’s attributes triggered at initialization time and whenever a change to the detector-description setup is applied Memory management for regions implemented in kernel through registration/deregistration mechanism Memory management of volumes and solids Dynamic geometry setups are now correctly handled Locking mechanism is implemented for deletion of volumes, solids and regions Registration/de-registration mechanism is applied for explicit destruction of objects No reference-counting applied PV, LV, regions and solids must be deleted in the proper order In PV, use pointer to mother LV to update list of daughters Pointer to mother PV will be removed from release 6.0 Geometry optimisation Voxelisation of the geometry structure is now optional: associated to the LV Argument in LV constru