A procedure for computing the symmetric difference of regions defined by polygonal curves

  • Authors:
  • Miguel Belbut Gaspar;Nelson Martins-Ferreira

  • Affiliations:
  • Centre for Rapid and Sustainable Product Development, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal;Departamento de Matemática, Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, and Centre for Rapid and Sustainable Product Development, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Symbolic Computation
  • Year:
  • 2014

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Abstract

Given any two regions A, B in the plane, defined by polygonal (simple, closed and oriented) curves, associated with their respective boundaries, we describe a procedure to compute the symmetric difference A@?B. The output is also presented in the form of polygonal curves, where in particular the curves describing the union A@?B, the intersection A@?B, the difference A@?B, and the complement of the difference B@?A, are also obtained. This is related with the two equivalent formulas to compute the symmetric difference, namely A@?B=(A@?B)@?(A@?B)=(A@?B)@?(B@?A).