My own personal favorite site for questions of this sort is the collection of geometry algorithms posted by Paul Bourke of the University of Western Australia. See http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/geometry/.
The particular algorithms you will be most interested in are "Polygon area and centroid calculation" and "Clipping a line with a polygon", which are both linked from this page. Even though the code examples are mostly in C, this is a terrific source for working with the Java geometry classes. [Message sent by forum member 'rpollack' (rpollack)] http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=254545 =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA2D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".