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An example of a convex polygon: a regular pentagon. In geometry, a convex polygon is a polygon that is the boundary of a convex set. This means that the line segment between two points of the polygon is contained in the union of the interior and the boundary of the polygon. In particular, it is a simple polygon (not self-intersecting). [1]
Many examples of bounded convex polytopes can be found in the article "polyhedron".In the 2-dimensional case the full-dimensional examples are a half-plane, a strip between two parallel lines, an angle shape (the intersection of two non-parallel half-planes), a shape defined by a convex polygonal chain with two rays attached to its ends, and a convex polygon.
Convex analysis includes not only the study of convex subsets of Euclidean spaces but also the study of convex functions on abstract spaces. Convex analysis is the branch of mathematics devoted to the study of properties of convex functions and convex sets , often with applications in convex minimization , a subdomain of optimization theory .
In geometry, a zonogon is a centrally-symmetric, convex polygon. [1] Equivalently, it is a convex polygon whose sides can be grouped into parallel pairs with equal lengths and opposite orientations, the two-dimensional analog of a zonohedron .
Polyhedral surfaces with equal-slope faces over any base polygon (not necessarily convex) can be constructed from the polygon's straight skeleton, and an equivalent way of describing this realization is that the two-dimensional projection of the tree onto the base face forms its straight skeleton. The proof of this result uses induction: any ...
A face of a convex polytope P may be defined as the intersection of P and a closed halfspace H such that the boundary of H contains no interior point of P. The dimension of a face is the dimension of this hull. The 0-dimensional faces are the vertices themselves, and the 1-dimensional faces (called edges) are line segments connecting pairs of ...
Sum S of internal angles of a regular convex polygon with n sides: = Area A of a regular convex polygon with n sides and side length s: = Inradius r of a regular convex polygon with n sides and side length s:
The fair polygon partitioning problem [20] is to partition a (convex) polygon into (convex) pieces with an equal perimeter and equal area (this is a special case of fair cake-cutting). Any convex polygon can be easily cut into any number n of convex pieces with an area of exactly 1/n. However, ensuring that the pieces have both equal area and ...