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A multi-turning equiangular polygon can be direct, like this octagon, <8/2>, has 8 90° turns, totaling 720°. A concave indirect equiangular polygon, <5-2>, counterclockwise has 4 left turns and one right turn. (-1.2.4.3.2) 60° An indirect equiangular hexagon, <6-6> 90° with 3 left turns, 3 right turns, totaling 0°.
Coxeter states that every zonogon (a 2m-gon whose opposite sides are parallel and of equal length) can be dissected into m(m-1)/2 parallelograms. [3] In particular this is true for regular polygons with evenly many sides, in which case the parallelograms are all rhombi.
This formula cannot be used if the quadrilateral is a right kite, since the denominator is zero in that case. If M, N are the midpoints of the diagonals, and E, F are the intersection points of the extensions of opposite sides, then the area of a bicentric quadrilateral is given by
The polygon is the convex hull of its edges. Additional properties of convex polygons include: The intersection of two convex polygons is a convex polygon. A convex polygon may be triangulated in linear time through a fan triangulation, consisting in adding diagonals from one vertex to all other vertices.
A principal diagonal of a hexagon is a diagonal which divides the hexagon into quadrilaterals. In any convex equilateral hexagon (one with all sides equal) with common side a, there exists [11]: p.184, #286.3 a principal diagonal d 1 such that and a principal diagonal d 2 such that
There are 17 combinations of regular convex polygons that form 21 types of plane-vertex tilings. [6] [7] Polygons in these meet at a point with no gap or overlap. Listing by their vertex figures, one has 6 polygons, three have 5 polygons, seven have 4 polygons, and ten have 3 polygons. [8]
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The area of a self-intersecting polygon can be defined in two different ways, giving different answers: Using the formulas for simple polygons, we allow that particular regions within the polygon may have their area multiplied by a factor which we call the density of the region. For example, the central convex pentagon in the center of a ...