Randompolygon

Anders Wallin (anders.e.e.wallin "at" gmail.com) December 2011

This is a minimal boost::python module which wraps CGAL code from: http://www.cgal.org/Manual/latest/doc_html/cgal_manual/Generator_ref/Function_random_polygon_2.html that uses the "2-opt" heuristic for generating a random polygon with N vertices.

Out-of-source build:

make bld
cd bld
cmake .
make
sudo make install

Install from PPA:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:anders-e-e-wallin/cam
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install randompolygon

todo:

• generate many polygons with N vertices (using the same random set of points) with one call
• random vertices are now hard-coded to be inside a unit-circle.
• allow unit-box and scaling of the radius/size-of-box.

Example polygons

These example random polygons are generated with the included Python script, and visualized with VTK.

32 vertex example:

1024 vertex example: