Given 3 integral coordinates of vertices of Triangle ABC and another integral coordinate P, how do I check if P strictly lies inside the triangle or not ?
I know how to check if P is inside triangle or not using Area method i.e, Area ABC = Area ABP + Area ACP + Area BCP.
But In this question, I want to P to be strictly inside the triangle.
There is lot approaches to check whether point lies inside triangle. The simplest ones, I think:
1) Check whether point is on the same side of all edges (find signs of cross products for edge vectors and vertex-point vectors AB x AP, BC x BP, CA x CP
)
2) Represent AP vector in basis of AB and AC vectors - coefficients and their sum should be in range 0..1. Delphi code:
function PtInTriangle(ax, ay, bx, by, cx, cy, px, py: Integer): Boolean;
var
xb, yb, xc, yc, xp, yp, d: Integer;
bb, cc, oned: Double;
begin
Result := False;
xb := bx - ax;
yb := by - ay;
xc := cx - ax;
yc := cy - ay;
xp := px - ax;
yp := py - ay;
d := xb * yc - yb * xc;
if d <> 0 then begin
oned := 1 / d;
bb := (xp * yc - xc * yp) * oned;
cc := (xb * yp - xp * yb) * oned;
Result := (bb > 0) and (cc > 0) and (cc + bb < 1);
end;
end;