polygonize
|pol-i-gon-ize|
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/ˈpɑlɪɡəˌnaɪz/
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/ˈpɒlɪɡəˌnaɪz/
convert into polygons
Etymology
'polygonize' originates from Modern English, specifically formed from the noun 'polygon' plus the verbal suffix '-ize', where 'poly-' meant 'many' and 'gon' (from Greek 'gōnia') meant 'angle'.
'polygon' comes from Greek 'polygōnon' (from 'poly-' "many" + 'gōnia' "angle"), passed into Latin and then Middle English as 'polygon', and 'polygonize' was created in modern English by adding the productive suffix '-ize' to that noun.
Initially, the roots referred to a 'many-angled' figure; over time the compound 'polygon' referred to such shapes and the derived verb 'polygonize' came to mean 'to make or represent as polygons', a technical sense that developed with computer graphics and GIS.
Meanings by Part of Speech
Verb 1
to convert a 3D model, mesh, or surface into a polygonal representation (i.e., represent it as a set of polygons), commonly used in computer graphics and 3D modelling.
Before real-time rendering we need to polygonize the high-resolution sculpt into a lower-polygon mesh.
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Verb 2
in GIS or computational geometry, to create polygon features from other data (for example, converting raster or line data into polygonal areas) or to enforce polygon topology.
The preprocessing step will polygonize the segmented regions so they can be exported as polygons.
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Last updated: 2025/09/04 08:10