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Re: finding if point is inside irregular rectangle

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Feb 25, 2002
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No Chris, he means a four-side shape - a quadrilateral. The internal angles
don't have to be 90 degrees, just have to total 360 degrees.

----- Original Message -----
From: <bensler at mail.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: RE: finding if point is inside irregular rectangle


>
> 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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