Random point inside a polygone

Create random point inside a polygone
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Updated 15 May 2019

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If you have a 2D CONVEX polygone and you want to create uniform point indise it, you can use randPolygone. The function is based on another (provided) function randTriangle that work on triangle.

Uniform means each area of your polygone has the same chance to be taken.

Here are some examples:

triangle = [0,0;10,0;2,3];
losange = [0,0;2 ,1;0,2;-2,1];
carre = [0,0;2 ,0;2,2; 0,2];
hexagone = [0,0;1,0;10,1;30,8;20,8;0,5];
dodecagone = [cos(linspace(0,2*pi,13))',...
sin(linspace(0,2*pi,13))'];
dodecagone(end,:) = [] ;

rTriangle=randPolygone(triangle,1e4);
rLosange=randPolygone(losange,1e4);
rHexagone=randPolygone(hexagone,1e4);
rCarre=randPolygone(carre,1e4);
rDodecagone=randPolygone(dodecagone ,1e4);

figure
scatter(rTriangle(:,1),rTriangle(:,2),'.')

Cite As

Stephane Dauvillier (2024). Random point inside a polygone (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/71398-random-point-inside-a-polygone), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

MATLAB Release Compatibility
Created with R2016b
Compatible with R2016a and later releases
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Version Published Release Notes
1.0.1

include the live function randTriangle

1.0.0