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ShapeConvexity


Computes the area of a shape divided by the area of its convex hull.

Name Type Description
inShape Path
outConvexity Real

Description

Convexity is a measure of how close a shape is to being convex. Convex shapes have convexity equal to 1.0, while the more concave the shape is, the closer to 0.0 is its convexity.

Mathematically, the convexity is calculated as follows:

Note that if the input path is not a valid shape (i.e. it has at least one self-intersection), the computation may lead to results that are not intuitive.

Examples

Area of the sample shape (on the left) equals to 17529.730, while area of its convex hull (on the right) equals to 20176.250, so the convexity of the shape equals to 17529.730/20176.250 = 0.867.

Errors

This filter can throw an exception to report error. Read how to deal with errors in Error Handling.

List of possible exceptions:

Error type Description
DomainError Degenerate shape on input in ShapeConvexity.
DomainError Open path on input in ShapeConvexity.

Complexity Level

This filter is available on Basic Complexity Level.

See Also

  • RegionConvexity – Computes the area of a region divided by area of its convex hull.
  • PathConvexHull – Computes the smallest convex shape that contains the given path.
  • ShapeElongation – Computes the elongation factor of a shape (perfect circle has minimal elongation equal 1.0).
  • ShapeCircularity – Computes the area of a shape divided by the area of a circle having the same feature.