geometry

geometry, a C++ code which performs certain geometric calculations in 2, 3 and N space.

These calculations include angles, areas, containment, distances, intersections, lengths, and volumes.

Some geometric objects can be described in a variety of ways. For instance, a line has implicit, explicit and parametric representations. The names of routines often will specify the representation used, and there are routines to convert from one representation to another.

Another useful task is the delineation of a standard geometric object. For instance, there is a routine that will return the location of the vertices of an octahedron, and others to produce a series of "equally spaced" points on a circle, ellipse, sphere, or within the interior of a triangle.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the MIT license

Languages:

geometry is available in a C version and a C++ version and a FORTRAN90 version and a MATLAB version and a Python version.

Related Programs:

geometry_test

ellipse, a C++ code which performs various geometric calculations for ellipses and ellipsoids.

hypersphere, a C++ code which carries out various operations for an M-dimensional hypersphere, including converting between Cartesian and spherical coordinates, stereographic projection, sampling the surface of the sphere, and computing the surface area and volume.

polygon, a C++ code which computes properties of an arbitrary polygon in the plane, defined by a sequence of vertices, including interior angles, area, centroid, containment of a point, convexity, diameter, distance to a point, inradius, lattice area, nearest point in set, outradius, uniform sampling.

tetrahedron, a C++ code which computes properties including the centroid, circumsphere, dihedral angles, edge lengths, face angles, face areas, insphere, quality, solid angles, and volume of a tetrahedron in 3D.

triangle, a C++ code which computes properties, including angles, area, centroid, circumcircle, edge lengths, incircle, orientation, orthocenter, and quality, of a triangle in 2D.

Reference:

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    Centroid of a Polygon,
    in Graphics Gems IV,
    edited by Paul Heckbert,
    AP Professional, 1994,
    ISBN: 0123361559,
    LC: T385.G6974.
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    Generalizing the Formula for Areas of Polygons to Moments,
    American Mathematical Society Monthly,
    Volume 96, Number 2, February 1989, pages 131-132.
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    A Programmer's Geometry,
    Butterworths, 1983,
    ISBN: 0408012420.
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    Point in Polyhedron Testing Using Spherical Polygons,
    in Graphics Gems V,
    edited by Alan Paeth,
    Academic Press, 1995,
    ISBN: 0125434553,
    LC: T385.G6975.
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    Voxel Traversal along a 3D Line,
    in Graphics Gems IV,
    edited by Paul Heckbert,
    AP Professional, 1994,
    ISBN: 0123361559,
    LC: T385.G6974.
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    ISBN: 3-540-65620-0,
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    Springer, 1998,
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    in Graphics Gems IV,
    edited by Paul Heckbert,
    Academic Press, 1994,
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    Second Edition,
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    LC: QA278.2.O36.
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    Second Edition,
    Cambridge, 1998,
    ISBN: 0521649765,
    LC: QA448.D38.
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    Distributing Many Points on a Sphere,
    The Mathematical Intelligencer,
    Volume 19, Number 1, 1997, pages 5-11.
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    in Graphics Gems IV,
    edited by Paul Heckbert,
    AP Professional, 1994,
    ISBN: 0123361559,
    LC: T385.G6974.
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    Algorithm 112: Position of Point Relative to Polygon,
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    Cambridge, 2005,
    ISBN: 0521823560,
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    Efficient Computation of Polygon Area and Polyhedron Volume,
    in Graphics Gems V,
    edited by Alan Paeth,
    AP Professional, 1995,
    ISBN: 0125434553,
    LC: T385.G6975.
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    CRC Press, 2000,
    ISBN: 1-58488-059-7,
    LC: QA273.3.Z95.

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Last revised on 10 March 2020.