circum: Determine the circumcircle of a triangle

In tripack: Triangulation of Irregularly Spaced Data

Determine the circumcircle of a triangle

Description

This function returns the circumcircle of a triangle.

Usage

circum(x, y)

Arguments

x	Vector of three elements, giving the x coordinatres of the triangle nodes.
y	Vector of three elements, giving the y coordinatres of the triangle nodes.

Details

This is an interface to the Fortran function CIRCUM found in TRIPACK.

Value

x	'x' coordinate of center
y	'y' coordinate of center
radius	circumcircle radius
signed.area	signed area of riangle (positive iff nodes are numbered counter clock wise)
aspect.ratio	ratio "radius of inscribed circle"/"radius of circumcircle", varies between 0 and 0.5 0 means collinear points, 0.5 equilateral trangle.

Note

This function is mainly intended to be used by circumcircle.

Author(s)

Fortran code: R. J. Renka, R code: A. Gebhardt

References

R. J. Renka (1996). Algorithm 751: TRIPACK: a constrained two-dimensional Delaunay triangulation package. ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software. 22, 1-8.

See Also

circumcircle

Examples

circum(c(0,1,0),c(0,0,1))

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