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  • From: Mathieu Brédif <>
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  • Subject: Re: [cgal-discuss] Creating a random sample
  • Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:42:14 +0200
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if you want it iid and uniform you have several alternatives:

[simple] sample its bounding box and until it falls inside the polygon
[more efficient] triangulate it, pick a triangle at random based on
its area relative to the polygon area, and sample uniformly inside the
triangle.

Mathieu

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Amir
Vaxman<>
wrote:
> Hello,
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> How do I create a random set of N points inside a given polygon_2?
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> Amir.



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