another yucky geometry question

[MisterX]

I think searching via google will be the easiest way...

search geometry insert circle into polygon 

or

polygon fitting

im sure you'll find it 

Damn, this troubles me now...

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Decagon.html

yuk... not simple enough...

There's a whateverangent(pi/something) I don’t want to compute this now :) I
got already side-tracked (decagon -> natural ratio theta) to
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/EngelExpansion.html and golden ratios and my
favorite "this is again going to lead to" e the engel number which is
logbasee of 1=2.17... I dig this stuff, and something last night blew my
mind away:  http://www.physorg.com/news3129.html - so im not to focused
right now in geometry... but it might help with binding angles in relation
to bonding energies functions in materials! sorry, I was thinking while
typing...

back to polygon fitting... 

[I'll skip the deviations I took and how I got to information theory]

but

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/RegularPolygon.html 

is what you are looking for ;)

love that site! Not yuky, enlightening!

I leave the yuky part of transcription into a function but it should be
peanuts now... ;)


cheers
Xavier
http://monsieurx.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com 
> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of TJ Frame
> Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 7:22 AM
> To: How to use Revolution
> Subject: another yucky geometry question
> 
> Hi everyone,
>  Does anyone know a good place to look for ( or know of any 
> example stacks) that might shed light on how to plot an 
> ellipse inscribed within a 4 sided polygon like in the 
> examples I created here:
> http://www.tjframe.com/EllipseExample.htm
>  I can handle the polygon, as well as finding the midpoints 
> of the lines, the center of the polygon etc. ..just not sure 
> about fitting that ellipse inside it. Curse my math - resistant brain!
>  Any pointers would be, as usual, greatly appreciated :)
>   - TJ
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