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These properties apply to all regular polygons, whether convex or star: A regular n-sided polygon has rotational symmetry of order n. All vertices of a regular polygon lie on a common circle (the circumscribed circle); i.e., they are concyclic points. That is, a regular polygon is a cyclic polygon.
In either case, the area formula is correct in absolute value. This is commonly called the shoelace formula or surveyor's formula. [6] The area A of a simple polygon can also be computed if the lengths of the sides, a 1, a 2, ..., a n and the exterior angles, θ 1, θ 2, ..., θ n are known, from:
Apothem of a hexagon Graphs of side, s; apothem, a; and area, A of regular polygons of n sides and circumradius 1, with the base, b of a rectangle with the same area. The green line shows the case n = 6. The apothem (sometimes abbreviated as apo [1]) of a regular polygon is a line
This can be seen from the area formula πr 2 and the circumference formula 2πr. The area of a regular polygon is half its perimeter times the apothem (where the apothem is the distance from the center to the nearest point on any side).
Shoelace scheme for determining the area of a polygon with point coordinates (,),..., (,). The shoelace formula, also known as Gauss's area formula and the surveyor's formula, [1] is a mathematical algorithm to determine the area of a simple polygon whose vertices are described by their Cartesian coordinates in the plane. [2]
The area of any regular polygon is: = where P is the perimeter of the polygon, and r is the inradius (equivalently the apothem). Substituting the regular pentagon's values for P and r gives the formula
Farey sunburst of order 6, with 1 interior (red) and 96 boundary (green) points giving an area of 1 + 96 / 2 − 1 = 48 [1]. In geometry, Pick's theorem provides a formula for the area of a simple polygon with integer vertex coordinates, in terms of the number of integer points within it and on its boundary.
Simple formulae are known for computing the area of the interior of a polygon. These include the shoelace formula for arbitrary polygons, [21] and Pick's theorem for polygons with integer vertex coordinates. [12] [22]