Polygon Clipper

Given two arbitrary polygons, the routine calculates the resulting polygon ...

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The Polygon Clipper (based on the gpc-library) is used to performe algebraic operations on two polygons.

Given two arbitrary polygons (which may self intersect, may contain holes, may be constructed of several contours) the Polygon Clipper is used to calculate the resulting polygon for the operations diff, union, AND, XOR.

All polygons are specified as structures as described in the example.m-file.

Credit for the gpc-library goes to Alan Murta (s. ReadMe.txt).

Cite As

Sebastian Hölz (2026). Polygon Clipper (https://au.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/8818-polygon-clipper), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

General Information

MATLAB Release Compatibility

  • Compatible with any release

Platform Compatibility

  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux
Version Published Release Notes Action
1.0.0.0

In the version from August 2006 I accidently deleted one line from the mexfile, which created a serious memory leak. This has been fixed in this version and anyone using the older version is advised to update.