Fill Triangle Block

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#1

How can I create a function to draw a triangle on an image then fill it?

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#2

Ah, this is actually a pretty difficult task! You’ll want to look up a “triangle rasterization” algorithm

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#3

Would a right triangle be easier?

#4

Yes, if the triangle is half of an unrotated rectangle. Off the top of my head, it would probably look something like this:

  1. Figure out which two points form the hypotenuse (it’ll be the two points that do not share an x or a y value)
  2. Use the bresenham line algorithm to draw the line between those two points
  3. At the point in that algorithm where you set the pixel, instead draw a vertical line. The line should start at the pixel position and go vertically to the y of the third (non-hypotenuse) point

There’s probably a smarter way to do it but that’s what i’ve got!

#5

Here’s an implementation that uses that algorithm:

Note that this does not actually check that the three points are a right triangle, I’ll leave that to you

Also this doesn’t work for rotated triangles!