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- From: jtien@venice.eng.uci.edu (Joe Tien)
- Newsgroups: comp.programming
- Subject: Re: How to decide if a point is inside a polygon?
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- Date: 26 Aug 92 23:44:42 GMT
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- Reply-To: jtien@venice.eng.uci.edu (Joe Tien)
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- In article <7121@bigbird.hri.com.hri.com>, mps@sparc68.hri.com (Mark Stockley) writes:
- |> I am in need of an algorithm to compute whether or not a given
- |> point exists within or without a polygon. Any help or pointers to
- |> where to look would be much appreciated.
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- |> Mark P. Stockley | INET: mps@hri.com | But I don't like Spam!!!
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- Look at the book "Algorithms in C" by Sedgewick. I don't have the book with me
- but I'm pretty sure it's in there.
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- Joe Tien
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