CADalyst, August 1st, 1999
It was a dark and stormy night. Captain LearnCurve was reading the newspaper. Suddenly, a classified ad rang out. Lost: One parrot. Hmmm, that would make a good topic for this month's column. A lost parrot? Polygon. Ouch.
Let's begin by defining a polygon as a lumpy circle. If you are going to get nasty about it, here's a formal definition. Polygon comes from the Greek meaning "many angles," and so by implication it also means "many sides." In common use a polygon is assumed to have more than four angles and sides, but technically a triangle is a polygon. If all the angles (and hence the si...
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