## 30 Geometry

— Function File: polyarea (x, y)
— Function File: polyarea (x, y, dim)

> Determines area of a polygon by triangle method. The variables x and y define the vertex pairs, and must therefore have the same shape. Then might be either vectors or arrays. If they are arrays then the columns of x and y are treated seperately and an area returned for each.

> If the optional dim argument is given, then `polyarea` works along this dimension of the arrays x and y.