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Re: finding if point is inside irregular rectangle

• Posted by gwalters at sc.rr.com Feb 25, 2002
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then it's a polygon...and it's far from trivial to find if a point is
inside.

george
----- Original Message -----
From: <tone.skoda at siol.net>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Re: finding if point is inside irregular rectangle


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> No I don't mean that. It can have angles which are not 90 degree.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <bensler at mail.com>
> To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 9:57 PM
> Subject: RE: finding if point is inside irregular rectangle
>
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> > He means a rectangle that is not exactly horizontal and vertical. It's
> > still a rectangle, but on an angle, like a diamond with 90 degree
> > corners.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > Brian Broker wrote:
> > > Hate to be a stickler here but "irregular rectangle" sounds like an
> > > oxymoron.  A rectangle is a four-sided polygon having all right
angles.
> > >
> > > Perhaps you mean "irregular quadrilateral"...
> > >
> > > -- BB
> > >
> > >
> > > tone.skoda at siol.net wrote:
> > > > Here's another problem: I need to find out if point lies inside
> > > > an irregular rectangle. Irregular rectangle has
> > > > 4 corners but they don't need to be 90 degree, although they can
still
> > > > be.
> > > >
> > > > Example of irregular rectangle:
> > >
> > >
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