Re: Volume in SQL

From: Mikito Harakiri <mikharakiri_at_iahu.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 16:31:58 -0700
Message-ID: <OLZJc.34$VC4.88@news.oracle.com>

"Jan Hidders" <jan.hidders_at_REMOVETHIS.pandora.be> wrote in message news:pan.2004.07.16.07.37.25.81889_at_REMOVETHIS.pandora.be...
> Well, if you look at the 2D case then what you could probably do is take
> the average of the points and triangulate with that point as one corner
> and the other two corners being the end pionts of an edge of
> the convex hull.

2 cents. The triangulation center doesn't have to be located in the center of mass. It can be anywhere, even outside of the polygon. In the http://www.math.niu.edu/~rusin/known-math/95/volume.poly it's conveniently positioned at the coordinates origin.

Isn't Stokes' Theorem wonderful? Received on Fri Jul 16 2004 - 18:31:58 CDT