Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbatt!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiucuxc!osiris!kaden From: kaden@osiris.CSO.UIUC.EDU Newsgroups: sci.misc Subject: point inside a triangle Message-ID: <54300001@osiris> Date: Fri, 17-Oct-86 17:43:00 EDT Article-I.D.: osiris.54300001 Posted: Fri Oct 17 17:43:00 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 21-Oct-86 05:17:41 EDT Lines: 12 Nf-ID: #N:osiris:54300001:000:446 Nf-From: osiris.CSO.UIUC.EDU!kaden Oct 17 16:43:00 1986 /* Written 4:34 pm Oct 17, 1986 by kaden@osiris.CSO.UIUC.EDU in osiris:net.math */ /* ---------- "point inside a triangle" ---------- */ Can we generalise to determine whether (p1,p2) is inside a polygon? Use the VECTOR approach, ONLY, as it is clearly the most superior, elegant and non- paleozoic approach to the problem. I will not even scan any other precambrian attempts. Thankyou. /* End of text from osiris:net.math */