Term: Traversal

An application finds MeshObjects in one of two ways:

• by knowing the MeshObject's MeshObjectIdentifier, and accessing the MeshObject directly.
• by starting from a MeshObject that it knows and traversing one or more of the relationships to its neighbor MeshObjects and beyond.

Any Traversal operation produces a MeshObjectSet that may contain zero, one, or more MeshObjects.

InfoGrid provides a number of different Traversal operations:

• single-step (from a MeshObject to its direct neighbors)
• multi-step (by means of a TraversalSpecification)
• filtered by RoleTypes with which its relationships may or may not be blessed.

See also:

• MeshObject
• MeshObjectSet
• RoleType
• TraversalSpecification.