Re: Best fit of polygon inside another polygon
"Nicholas \"Indy\" Ray" <[email protected]>
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Except with Scaling you can define best fit to be the fit that takes up the most amount of area, which is a pretty standard metric for best fit, no such standard metric exists without scaling IMO. Nicholas "Indy" Ray On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Fabian Giesen <[email protected]> wrote: >> Without scaling this seems to be an odd request... as what defines any >> one fit better then another, so long as the polygon does fit within >> the quad, there lacks a metric for "best" as any fit will take the >> same area and have the same excess area. > > Same goes for scaling though - just let the scaling factor run towards 0 > and your metric will look better and better. > > -Fabian Giesen > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT > is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet > the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & > iPhoneDevCamp asthey present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian > Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://www.creativitycat.com > _______________________________________________ > GDAlgorithms-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gdalgorithms-list > Archives: > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=gdalgorithms-list > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & iPhoneDevCamp asthey present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://www.creativitycat.com _______________________________________________ GDAlgorithms-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gdalgorithms-list Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=gdalgorithms-list