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- From: radford@cs.toronto.edu (Radford Neal)
- Subject: Re: Polygon point enclosure
- Message-ID: <92Aug27.171725edt.472@neuron.ai.toronto.edu>
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
- References: <1992Aug26.235700.16224@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <thompson.714934114@daphne.socsci.umn.edu> <1992Aug27.180024.2843@linus.mitre.org> <1992Aug27.193751.26737@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 21:17:48 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug27.193751.26737@news.eng.convex.com> dodson@convex.COM (Dave Dodson) writes:
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- >Yes, but only a convex polygon can be represented by a set of linear
- >inequalities, whereas counting the edge crossings of a ray from the
- >point in question to infinity can be made to work whether the polygon
- >is convex or not.
- >
- >Dave Dodson dodson@convex.COM
- >Convex Computer Corporation Richardson, Texas (214) 497-4234
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