Talk:Star domain

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Hmmmm... I had always called this quality as radially convex. Tom Ruen 11:07, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Hmmm, I never heard of "radially convex" before. The "star domain" (or other "star" variations) terminology is used quite a bit in literature, per google books. I did not try searching for "radially convex". Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 16:43, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

I'd never heard of a term for it before, so was my descriptive term. I used in the context of computer graphics - a radially convex polygon can be triangulated by adding a center point. I suppose another way to look at it as a one-to-one polar function. f(t)=r(t)*[cos(t),sin(t)], t=0..2π, f(0)=f(2π). Tom Ruen