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COMPUTING THE CENTER OF AREA OF A CONVEX POLYGON.

Authors :
Braß, Peter
Heinrich-Litan, Laura
Morin, Pat
Source :
International Journal of Computational Geometry & Applications; Oct2003, Vol. 13 Issue 5, p439-445, 7p
Publication Year :
2003

Abstract

The center of area of a convex planar set X is the point p for which the minimum area of X intersected by any halfplane containing p is maximized. We describe a simple randomized linear-time algorithm for computing the center of area of a convex n-gon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
02181959
Volume :
13
Issue :
5
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
International Journal of Computational Geometry & Applications
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
11784191
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1142/S021819590300127X