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Some examples of rectilinear polygons. A rectilinear polygon is a polygon all of whose sides meet at right angles. Thus the interior angle at each vertex is either 90° or 270°. Rectilinear polygons are a special case of isothetic polygons. In many cases another definition is preferable: a rectilinear polygon is a polygon with sides parallel ...
In Euclidean plane geometry, a rectangle is a rectilinear convex polygon or a quadrilateral with four right angles. It can also be defined as: an equiangular quadrilateral, since equiangular means that all of its angles are equal (360°/4 = 90°); or a parallelogram containing a right angle. A rectangle with four sides of equal length is a square.
Individual polygons are named (and sometimes classified) according to the number of sides, combining a Greek-derived numerical prefix with the suffix -gon, e.g. pentagon, dodecagon. The triangle , quadrilateral and nonagon are exceptions, although the regular forms trigon , tetragon , and enneagon are sometimes encountered as well.
Rectilinear means related to a straight line; it may refer to: Rectilinear grid, a tessellation of the Euclidean plane; Rectilinear lens, a photographic lens; Rectilinear locomotion, a form of animal locomotion; Rectilinear polygon, a polygon whose edges meet at right angles; Rectilinear propagation, a property of waves
A simple polygon is the boundary of a region of the plane that is called a solid polygon. The interior of a solid polygon is its body, also known as a polygonal region or polygonal area. In contexts where one is concerned only with simple and solid polygons, a polygon may refer only to a simple polygon or to a solid polygon.
It's about a rectilinear polygon. The mentioned "heptile" must mean the heptomino with a hole. A rectilinear hexagon can only have an L-like shape and that can always tile the plane like in regardless of the side lenghts. A rectilinear octagon cannot in general. Consider for example a U pentomino where the gap is made too narrow to fit another ...
A rectilinear polygon can always be covered with a finite number of vertices of the polygon. [1] The algorithm uses a local optimization approach: it builds the covering by iteratively selecting maximal squares that are essential to the cover (i.e., contain uncovered points not covered by other maximal squares) and then deleting from the polygon the points that become unnecessary (i.e ...
A more general case is rectilinear polygons, the ones with all sides parallel to coordinate axes or rectilinear polyhedra. Many problems in computational geometry allow for faster algorithms when restricted to (collections of) axis-oriented objects, such as axis-aligned rectangles or axis-aligned line segments. [1]