Parallelogram

Element

A quadrilateral polygon with parallel opposite sides. Constructs a parallelogram. As input, three points or coordinate arrays are expected.

Usage (signatures)
board.create('parallelogram', [p1, p2, p3]);

The parallelogram is a polygon through the points [p1, p2, pp, p3], where pp is a parallelpoint, available as sub-object parallelogram.parallelPoint.

Parameters
Name Type Description
p1 PointLike
p2 PointLike
p3 PointLike
Example
var p1 = board.create('point', [-3, -4]);
var p2 = board.create('point', [3, -1]);
var p3 = board.create('point', [-2, 0]);
var par = board.create('parallelogram', [p1, p2, p3], {
    hasInnerPoints: true,
    parallelpoint: {
        size: 6,
        face: '<<>>'
    }
});

Attributes

Own

none

Inherited

Members

Own

parallelPoint : JXG.Point

Description

Parallel point which makes the quadrilateral a parallelogram. Can also be accessed with parallelogram.vertices[2].

Type
JXG.Point
Source
base/polygon.js, line 1570

Inherited

Methods

Own

none

Inherited

Events

Own

none

Inherited

Throws

If the element cannot be constructed with the given parent objects an exception is thrown.

Type
Exception

Details

Type
Polygon
Source
base/polygon.js, line 1496

Extends