Rectilinear Polygon - Special Cases and Generalizations

Special Cases and Generalizations

  • orthogonally convex rectilinear polygon
  • Axis-aligned rectangle
    • Minimum bounding rectangle
  • Monotone rectilinear polygon, a monotone polygon which is also rectilinear
  • Rectilinear polygon with (rectilinear) holes
  • Rectilinear polyhedron
  • Rectilinearity

See also orthogonal polyhedra (under polyhedron, "Other important families of polyhedra"), the natural generalization of orthogonal polygons to 3D.

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