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of a concave polygon fail to divide the plane into two half-planes one of which entirely contains the polygon. None of these three statements holds for a convex polygon.
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Some lines containing interior points of a concave polygon intersect its boundary at more than two points. Some
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of the concave polygon's vertices, and that of its edges, contains points that are exterior to the polygon.
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At least one interior angle does not contain all other vertices in its edges and interior.
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for finding a decomposition into as few convex polygons as possible is described by
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of a concave polygon lie partly or wholly outside the polygon. Some
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can never be concave, but there exist concave polygons with
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Index

Re-entrant polygon

simple polygon
convex
reflex interior angle
diagonals
sidelines
internal angles
radians
partition
polynomial-time algorithm
Chazelle & Dobkin (1985)
triangle
quadrilateral
dart
convex hull
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ISBN
0-7637-2250-2
ISBN
978-0-7641-4069-3
doi
10.2307/3611229
JSTOR
3611229



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