Timeline for How to generate random points on the surface of a quadrilateral
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| Oct 21, 2023 at 11:04 | comment | added | DMGregory♦ | Also, if the quad has a concavity (a dart shape or a fold along a diagonal), this method can produce points outside the polygon(s). | |
| Feb 20, 2012 at 10:38 | comment | added | sam hocevar | This is not uniform picking. Consider what happens when two vertices are very close to each other: you get a lot more points in that area. | |
| Feb 20, 2012 at 3:29 | history | answered | ipeet | CC BY-SA 3.0 |