area of 3 triangles being formed by joining the point to 3 vertices can be
float n when we add the 3 areas, the sum wud also be float. and this is to b
compared with original area
don't u think the problem wud arise in comparing the floats?
wud that give right ans??

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Don <[email protected]> wrote:

> That should work, but I'd bet that my method is faster.
> Don
>
> On Jul 29, 6:02 am, Udit Gupta <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Join the given point with all the vertices of the triangle and calculate
> the
> > area of each of the three sub-triangles thus formed
> > now compare the area of original triangle with the sum of the area of
> those
> > 3 triangles
> > if that comes out to be equal, then the point lies inside
> > otherwise not.
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Don <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > // True if point (x,y) is above line defined by two points
> > > // If line is vertical, "above" is defined as to the right
> > > bool above(double lx1, double ly1, double lx2, double ly2, double x,
> > > double y)
> > > {
> > >    return (lx1 != lx2) ? (y > (ly1+(x-lx1)*(ly2-ly1)/(lx2-lx1))) : (x
> > > > lx1);
> > > }
> >
> > > // True if point 1 and point 2 are on the same side of the line
> > > defined by l1 and l2
> > > bool sameSide(double lx1, double ly1, double lx2, double ly2, double
> > > px1, double py1, double px2, double py2)
> > > {
> > >    return above(lx1, ly1, lx2, ly2, px1, py1) == above(lx1, ly1, lx2,
> > > ly2, px2, py2);
> > > }
> >
> > > // True if point (x,y) is inside triangle
> > > bool pointInTriangle(double x1, double y1, double x2, double y2,
> > > double x3, double y3, double x, double y)
> > > {
> > >    return sameSide(x1,y1,x2,y2,x,y,x3,y3) &&
> > >           sameSide(x1,y1,x3,y3,x,y,x2,y2) &&
> > >           sameSide(x2,y2,x3,y3,x,y,x1,y1);
> > > }
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