Determines if a point is inside or outside a polygon. The function is vectorized so it can be used to create a mesh of a polygon.
The polygon vertices are contained in a single matrix of dimension Nx2 (or 2xN), where N >= 3 is the number of vertices. The dimension 2 corresponds to the x,y positions. For example, a square of side length 1 can be described by V = [ 0,0; 1,0; 1,1; 0,1] or V = [ 0,1,1,0;0,0,1,1].
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out = inpoly(V,x,y); |
Returns a matrix of the same dimension of x with 1 if the corresponding point is inside the polygon and 0 otherwise. The matrices x and y must have the same length, or one of them can be a singleton. |
Examples
The following example shows how to identify the points in a mesh that are inside a polygon.
V = [ 0,0; 1,0; 1,1; 0,1]; x = linspace(-4,4,100); y = linspace(-4,4,100); X = meshgridx(x,y); Y = meshgridy(x,y); image(x,y,inpoly(V,X,Y),"x","y");
The generated image is:
See Also
List of commands , polyarea , centroid , polyintersect , polygrow , polyand , polyor , polydiff , polyxor , meshgridx , meshgridy