Re: Polygon Union
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- Subject: [mg100574] Re: Polygon Union
- From: David Skulsky <edskulsky at gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 02:08:09 -0400 (EDT)
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Hmmm... I was hoping to avoid using a function external to Mathematica (I've never used MathLink), but this may be inevitable. Thanks! David Skulsky On Jun 6, 12:49 am, "Sjoerd C. de Vries" <sjoerd.c.devr... at gmail.com> wrote: > http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~toby/alan/software/has C code to perform a > set of polygon operations, among which the polygon union. > > Cheers -- Sjoerd > > On Jun 5, 10:12 pm, David Skulsky <edskul... at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I am looking for a Mathematica function which generates the union of > > two (not necessarily convex) polygons. I found a package on the web > > (the Imtek library, I believe) which includes a convex polygon > > intersection function, but not a polygon *union* function. Does > > anyone know if such a function is available or, if not, can anyone > > suggest an algorithm to implement in Mathematica? > > > Thanks in advance, > > > David Skulsky