Assignment 10 - Geometric Solids

due December 10th     This assignment will not be accepted late.

This assignment will give you practice with inheritance and polymorphism.

Geometric Solids Inheritance Hierarchy

Create the inheritance hierarchy illustrated above.  The GeometricSolid, Circular, and Rectangular classes should be abstract.  Create three pure virtual functions in the GeometricSolid class and define/declare them in the hierarchy as necessary: 
  1. A name() function that returns a string for all classes.
  2. A volume() function that returns the volume of the solid.
  3. A surface_area() function that returns the surface_area of the solid.
The Circular class should have a data member that represents a radius.
The Rectangular class should have three data members, representing length, width, and height.
Input data for this assignment will be provided in a 50 record randomly ordered text file.  The format for this file will be a two-byte character code (“cy”, “sp”, “re”, or “cu”) indicating the type of solid, followed by 1, 2, or 3 doubles representing requisite data members of the class.  Specifically the data format will appear as:

GeometricSolid     Code    # of doubles    Representing
Cylinder            cy          2          radius and height
Sphere              sp          1          radius
RetangularPrism     re          3          length, width, and height
Cube                cu          1          side

Input file:  get it here

cu    2.19966
sp    8.15059
cy    2.62835  0.782609
cu    39.6149
re    8.46099   8.44898   0.47349
sp     1.2963
sp    3.71858
re    5.26688   4.18795   13.3458
cy     12.737   13.7651
...

Your program needs to perform the following tasks:
1.    Read in the data file, correctly processing each particular type of GeometricSolid.
2.    Using a pointer to a GeometricSolid, and making use of polymorphism, allocate memory dynamically for a specific type of GeometricSolid.  Using polymorphism print the type,  surface area and volume for each record. 
3.    The output should be formatted in fixed notation with 4 decimal place accuracy.  The output should match that which is partially displayed below.

Program Output

cube                       29.0310         10.6431
sphere                    834.8106       2268.0663
cylinder                   56.3300         16.9848
cube                     9416.0418      62169.2591
rectangular prism         158.9869         33.8483
sphere                     21.1164          9.1244
sphere                    173.7657        215.3873
rectangular prism         296.4794        294.3741
cylinder                 2120.9347       7015.5794
...

Your main() might contain a few lines similar to:

Solid* ptrSolid;        // declare a pointer to a Geometric Solid
 
for (unsigned i = 0; i< 50; ++i) {
   fin >> code;
   if (!strcmp(code,"cy")) {
      fin >> d1 >> d2;
      ptrSolid = new Cylinder(d1,d2);
   }
      ...
   else ...
   ...
   cout << left << setw(18) << ptrSolid->name() << …  
   cout << … << ptrSolid->surfaceArea();
   ...
}
...

You may need the following formulas for this assignment:

Geometric Solids Formulas