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- From: alopez-o@neumann.uwaterloo.ca (Alex Lopez-Ortiz)
- Subject: Re: Random generation of simple polygons
- Message-ID: <BxGvLJ.5E4@math.uwaterloo.ca>
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- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <1992Nov9.123707.12110@kum.kaist.ac.kr>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 20:58:30 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov9.123707.12110@kum.kaist.ac.kr>,
- flow@gayakum.kaist.ac.kr (Paek In-Hyeok) writes:
- >
- > Hi!
- > I'm looking for papers, source code, or refernces to random
- > generation of simple polygons.
- > If anyone could e-mail me, I would greatly appreciate.
-
- I've done some work on this area (together with some friends) and
- what it really boils down to is :
-
- What distribution are you looking for?
-
- Say do you want to generate n vertex polygons or polygons with expected
- number of vertices n (under normal distribution)?
-
- Say you are generating rectangles, are you looking for a uniform
- distribution on the position of the corners, or for a uniform distribution
- on the area of the rectangle?
-
-
- It really depends on what you have in mind..
-
-
- Alex
-
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- Alex Lopez-Ortiz alopez-o@maytag.UWaterloo.ca
- Department of Computer Science University of Waterloo
- Waterloo, Ontario Canada
-