the midpoint polygon of a polygon P is the polygon whose vertices are the midpoints of the edges of P. It is sometimes called the Kasner polygon after...
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the midpoint of a diagonal between opposite vertices is the polygon's center. The midpoint-stretching polygon of a cyclic polygon P (a polygon whose...
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In geometry, the midpoint-stretching polygon of a cyclic polygon P is another cyclic polygon inscribed in the same circle, the polygon whose vertices are...
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Medial triangle (redirect from Midpoint triangle)
the triangle's sides AB, AC, BC. It is the n = 3 case of the midpoint polygon of a polygon with n sides. The medial triangle is not the same thing as the...
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is tangent to every side at the midpoint. Thus a regular polygon is a tangential polygon. A regular n-sided polygon can be constructed with compass and...
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Apothem (category Polygons)
regular polygon is a line segment from the center to the midpoint of one of its sides. Equivalently, it is the line drawn from the center of the polygon that...
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A triangle is a polygon with three corners and three sides, one of the basic shapes in geometry. The corners, also called vertices, are zero-dimensional...
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Perimeter (redirect from Perimeter of the polygon)
} An equilateral polygon is a polygon which has all sides of the same length (for example, a rhombus is a 4-sided equilateral polygon). To calculate the...
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is planar or not. The theorem can be generalized to the midpoint polygon of an arbitrary polygon. Referring to the diagram above, triangles ADC and HDG...
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Octagon (category Constructible polygons)
polygons, the external angles total 360°. If squares are constructed all internally or all externally on the sides of an octagon, then the midpoints of...
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circumscribed circle) A midpoint polygon of another polygon This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Inscribed polygon. If an internal...
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Free body diagram (redirect from Polygon of force)
the applied forces are arranged as the edges of a polygon of forces or force polygon (see § Polygon of forces). A body is said to be "free" when it is...
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Concyclic points (redirect from Cyclic polygon)
cocyclic) if they lie on a common circle. A polygon whose vertices are concyclic is called a cyclic polygon, and the circle is called its circumscribing...
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two possible arcs determined by the endpoints of a diameter, taking its midpoint as centre. In non-technical common usage it may mean the interior of the...
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But this is the midpoint of the line segment joining two interior points of edges and hence lies in C, the interior of the polygon. This again contradicts...
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infinite skew polygons with vertices alternating between two parallel lines. Infinite helical polygons are 3-dimensional infinite skew polygons with vertices...
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segment's end points are vertices of a polygon or polyhedron, the line segment is either an edge (of that polygon or polyhedron) if they are adjacent vertices...
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Pentagon (category Constructible polygons)
Greek πέντε (pente) 'five' and γωνία (gonia) 'angle') is any five-sided polygon or 5-gon. The sum of the internal angles in a simple pentagon is 540°....
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Area of a circle (section Using polygons)
the center to the midpoint of a side of the polygon; its length, h, is less than the circle radius. Also, let each side of the polygon have length s; then...
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Similarity (geometry) (redirect from Similar polygons)
similar. Corresponding sides of similar polygons are in proportion, and corresponding angles of similar polygons have the same measure. Two congruent shapes...
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Centroid (section Of a polygon)
three medians of the triangle (each median connecting a vertex with the midpoint of the opposite side). For other properties of a triangle's centroid, see...
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180°). The dual polygon of a rectangle is a rhombus, as shown in the table below. The figure formed by joining, in order, the midpoints of the sides of...
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Circumcircle (section Cyclic polygons)
generally, an n-sided polygon with all its vertices on the same circle, also called the circumscribed circle, is called a cyclic polygon, or in the special...
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In geometry a quadrilateral is a four-sided polygon, having four edges (sides) and four corners (vertices). The word is derived from the Latin words quadri...
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of the midpoint. Just to the west of this peak is a pair of small craters on the floor. There is also a small crater to the south of the midpoint, and the...
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Semiperimeter (section Regular polygons)
In geometry, the semiperimeter of a polygon is half its perimeter. Although it has such a simple derivation from the perimeter, the semiperimeter appears...
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implemented by displacing the texture coordinates at a point on the rendered polygon by a function of the view angle in tangent space (the angle relative to...
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Hexagon (category Constructible polygons)
midpoints of the segments connecting the centroids of opposite triangles form another equilateral triangle.: Thm. 1 A skew hexagon is a skew polygon...
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Triacontagon (category Constructible polygons)
thirty-sided polygon. The sum of any triacontagon's interior angles is 5040 degrees. The regular triacontagon is a constructible polygon, by an edge-bisection...
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area as a given polygon, and regular polygons of 3, 4, or 5 sides: p. xi (or one with twice the number of sides of a given polygon: pp. 49–50 ). But...
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