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Friday, November 8, 2013

Printing polygons edge-to-edge

Recipe
Suppose you have some polygon with cornerpoints { p1, p2, ..., pk } and you want to print a regular polygon with n edges along one of its edges (p(j), p(j+1) then you can simply find the first point of the regular n-gon by rotating p(j+1) with centre p(j) over 360/n degrees. You can continue this process until you have found all points or you can calculate the centre of the regular polygon, its orientation and edge-length which you need to print a regular n-gon. Here are some examples.

Examples
3-on-4, 4-on-3 and and 5,7,9,11-on 4 (dark-on-light ).



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