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aaa_aaatoday at 10:23 AM1 replyview on HN

Yes I remember doing something like that in 90s for a survey/map engineering cad application. After delaunay triangulation, calculating approximate voulume is easy. But this probably is a more general solution


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sreantoday at 1:02 PM

Yes it goes by a couple of names. Surveyor's formula, shoelace formula.

The Surveyor’s Area Formula Bart Braden The College Mathematics Journal, September 1986, Volume 17, Number 4.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150406152731if_/http://www.maa...

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