jts.geom">Envelope</A>&nbsp;envelope)</PRE>
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<DD>Creates a <A HREF="../../../../com/vividsolutions/jts/geom/Geometry.html" title="class in com.vividsolutions.jts.geom"><CODE>Geometry</CODE></A> with the same extent as the given envelope.
 The Geometry returned is guaranteed to be valid.  
 To provide this behaviour, the following cases occur:
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 If the <code>Envelope</code> is:
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 <li>null : returns an empty <A HREF="../../../../com/vividsolutions/jts/geom/Point.html" title="class in com.vivids