Identify convex and concave parts of polygon
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Are Mjaavatten
c = convex([x,y]) c = 1 where the polygon curves toward the interior c = -1 where the polygon curves outwards
This function can be used to identify convex and concave parts of a polygon, such as the airfoil profile in the figure.
Thanks to Luigi Ventre who posed the problem in a comment to File Exchange entry Curvature of a 1D curve in a 2D or 3D space.
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Are Mjaavatten (2024). Identify convex and concave parts of polygon (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/102169-identify-convex-and-concave-parts-of-polygon), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .
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