POLYAREA

Purpose:

Calculates the area of a closed loop series.

POLYAREA(series)

series

Optional. A series. Defaults to the current Window.

POLYAREA(xseries, yseries)

xseries	-	Optional. A series. Defaults to the X values of the current Window.
yseries	-	Optional. A series. Defaults to the Y values of the current Window.

A scalar, the closed polygon area..

W1: gsin(6, 1, 1/5)

W2: gcos(6, 1, 1/5)

W3: xy(w1, w2)

W4: {polyarea(w3)}

W3 contains a regular pentagon. W4 contains the value 2.377641, the approximate area of the pentagon.

f := 6;

W1: gsin(f+1, 1, 1/f)

W2: gcos(f+1, 1, 1/f)

W3: xy(w1, w2)

W4: {polyarea(w3)}

W3 contains a regular hexagon parameterize by the hot variable f. W4 contains the value 2.598076, the approximate area of the hexagon.

f = 8;

Changing f to 8 creates an octagon in W3 with the area calculated in W4 as 2.828427.

f := 6;

W1: gsin(f+1, 1, 1/f)

W2: gcos(f+1, 1, 1/f)

W3: {polyarea(w1, w2)}

Same as the previous example except the X and Y values

POLYAREA expects a closed polygon and automatically adds the closing point if the starting point does not equal the ending point.

See CAREA to compute the area of an arbitrary closed loop curve.