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About PolygonTriangulation`
PolygonTriangulation` consists of two Mathematica 4.0 packages:
SimplePolygonTriangulation` and PolygonTessellation`.
The SimplePolygonTriangulation` package offers functions to
decompose simple polygons (polygons without self-intersections)
into triangles. Non-simple polygons can be tessellated into simple polygons
with the PolygonTessellation` package.
Triangulation and tessellation of polygons are of special interest in
three dimensions as Mathematica displays non-convex and/or
self-intersecting polygons embedded in three dimensions not the way
many users expect.
Downloading and Installing
The latest version of both packages is 1.2.
All files of PolygonTriangulation` are assembled in a single archive.
However, there are three versions of this archive for different platforms.
Archives for different platforms.
Each of the archives contains the following 7 files.
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full file name
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description
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./PolygonTriangulation/README
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ASCII version of this page
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./PolygonTriangulation/SimplePolygonTriangulation.m
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Mathematica code
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./PolygonTriangulation/PolygonTessellation.m
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Mathematica code
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./PolygonTriangulation/Documentation/English/BrowserCategories.m
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online help categories
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./PolygonTriangulation/Documentation/English/BrowserIndex.nb
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online help index file
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./PolygonTriangulation/Documentation/English/SimplePolygonTriangulation.nb
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online help file
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./PolygonTriangulation/Documentation/English/PolygonTessellation.nb
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online help file
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Files in each archive.
The PolygonTriangulation directory should be moved into the
($TopDirectory)/AddOns/ExtraPackages/ directory.
Then you should rebuild the Mathematica online help index in order to
include links to the documentation in the help browser. Once installed,
<<PolygonTriangulation`SimplePolygonTriangulation`
and
<<PolygonTriangulation`PolygonTessellation`
will load the packages.
Acknowledgments
The first versions of these packages were written during an internship
at Wolfram Research, Inc. in August 1999.
I would like to thank many people at WRI for making my internship so extremely pleasant,
in particular my inofficial supervisors Eric W. Weisstein and Michael Trott.
Martin Kraus, 17 January 2000
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