NAME

Math::Polygon::Calc - Simple polygon calculations

INHERITANCE

Math::Polygon::Calc
  is a Exporter

SYNOPSIS

my @poly = ( [1,2], [2,4], [5,7], [1, 2] );

my ($xmin, $ymin, $xmax, $ymax) = polygon_bbox @poly;

my $area = polygon_area @poly;
MY $L    = polygon_perimeter @poly;
if(polygon_is_clockwise @poly) { ... };

my @rot  = polygon_start_minxy @poly;

DESCRIPTION

This package contains a wide variaty of relatively easy polygon calculations. More complex calculations are put in separate packages.

REFERENCES

See the Math::Polygon website at http://perl.overmeer.net/geo for more details.

COPYRIGHTS

Module version 0.004. Written by Mark Overmeer (polygon@overmeer.net). See the ChangeLog for other contributors.

Copyright (c) 2004 by the author(s). All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.