polygon_distance

polygon_distance, an Octave code which considers the problem of describing the typical value of the distance between a pair of points randomly selected in an polygon in 2D.

Licensing:

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

Languages:

polygon_distance is available in a MATLAB version and an Octave version.

Related Data and Programs:

polygon_distance_test

octave_distance, an Octave code which estimates the typical distance between a pair of points randomly selected from the surface or interior of a geometric object such as a circle, disk, sphere, cube.

Source Code:

• polygon_distance_histogram.m, displays a histogram from N samples of pairwise distances.
• polygon_distance_stats.m, estimates the statistics of the pairwise distance, using sampling.
• polygon_sample.m, returns a random point in a polygon.
• polygon_triangulate.m, triangulates a polygon.
• r8mat_transpose_print.m, prints the transpose of an R8MAT;
• r8mat_transpose_print_some.m, prints some of the transpose of an R8MAT;
• triangle_area.m, computes the area of a triangle.