Exactly! So, you have a few options of course, but I think Sean has the
path of least resistance.

There was quite a bit about this sort of thing (in very practical terms) in
a gmsh document that I can't seem to find online right now. I have a
printed copy at work though, so I'll have a look on monday if you don't
have something sorted by then. In the meantime I'll have a bit of a think...
On Jul 7, 2012 2:16 PM, "crdueck" <crdu...@uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

>  that's correct, which is why it wouldnt work on a dumbell shaped sketch
> for example.
>
> On 07/06/2012 11:06 PM, Matt Shepit wrote:
>
> Hi Chris,
>
>  I think what you have described would only work if the sketch described a
> region that was strictly convex, which is a rather large restriction...
>
>  -Matt-
>
>  On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 1:01 PM, crdueck <crdu...@uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>
>> hello all,
>>
>> I've begun working on an analysis function for the sketch primitive. To
>> compute its area, Sean suggested creating a tesselation. Could someone
>> describe the method for doing this? My first take at it would be to
>> choose one vertice and draw a line from each other vertice to it to
>> create a "fan" of triangles, but this wouldnt account for the circular
>> arcs or bezier segments that can be part of a sketch. hopefully someone
>> can point me in the right direction :)
>>
>> thanks,
>> chris
>>
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