Find corners of quadrilateral or triangular area, which contains the specified collection of points.

Namespace:  AForge.Math.Geometry
Assembly:  AForge.Math (in AForge.Math.dll) Version: 2.2.5.0 (2.2.5.0)

Syntax

C#
public static List<IntPoint> FindQuadrilateralCorners(
	IEnumerable<IntPoint> cloud
)

Parameters

cloud
Type: System.Collections.Generic..::.IEnumerable<(Of <(IntPoint>)>)
Collection of points to search quadrilateral for.

Return Value

Returns a list of 3 or 4 points, which are corners of the quadrilateral or triangular area filled by specified collection of point. The first point in the list is the point with lowest X coordinate (and with lowest Y if there are several points with the same X value). The corners are provided in counter clockwise order (Cartesian coordinate system).

Remarks

The method makes an assumption that the specified collection of points form some sort of quadrilateral/triangular area. With this assumption it tries to find corners of the area.

Note:The method does not search for bounding quadrilateral/triangular area, where all specified points are inside of the found quadrilateral/triangle. Some of the specified points potentially may be outside of the found quadrilateral/triangle, since the method takes corners only from the specified collection of points, but does not calculate such to form true bounding quadrilateral/triangle.

See QuadrilateralRelativeDistortionLimit property for additional information.

See Also