Affine regular polygons

Affinely regular polygons in an affine plane

In this paper we survey results about affinely regular polygons. First, the definitions and classification of affinely regular polygons are given. Then the theory of Bachmann–Schmidt is outlined. There are several classical theorems about regular polygons, some of them having analogues in finite planes, such as the Napoleon–Barlotti theorem. Such analogues, variants of classical theorems are al...

Protecting regular polygons

The minimum number of mutually non-overlapping congruent copies of a convex body K so that they can touch K and prevent any other congruent copy of K from touching K without overlapping each other is called the protecting number of K. In this paper we prove that the 1 2 Arnfried Kemnitz, LL aszll o Szabb o, Zoltt an Ujvv ary-Menyhh art protecting number of any regular polygon is three or four, ...

Affine invariants of convex polygons

In this correspondence, we prove that the affine invariants, for image registration and object recognition, proposed recently by Yang and Cohen (see ibid., vol.8, no.7, p.934-46, July 1999) are algebraically dependent. We show how to select an independent and complete set of the invariants. The use of this new set leads to a significant reduction of the computing complexity without decreasing t...

Tiling with Regular Star Polygons

The Archimedean tilings (Figure 1) and polyhedra will be familiar to many readers. They have the property that the tiles of the tiling, or the faces of the polyhedron, are regular polygons, and that the vertices form a single orbit under the symmetries of the tiling or polyhedron. (Grünbaum and Shephard [1] use Archimedean, in relation to tilings, to refer to the sequence of polygons at each ve...

Regular polygons are most tolerant