dart_polylabel2

A fast algorithm for finding polygon pole of inaccessibility. Useful for optimal placement of a text label on a polygon.

Dart port of mapbox's polylabel algorithm. Thanks to beroso's original port (polylabel) for inspiration.

This has a few changes from polylabel, which make it not backwards compatible:

  • No usage of 'dart:math's Point
    • It's been described as legacy since Feb 2024 in Dart/Flutter, and will be deprecated in future
    • This reduces internal & external casting and usage of generic types (which are inefficient), which has increased performance
    • It was overkill for the simple 2D Cartesian coordinate container needed
  • Uses newer Dart lanaguage features

Usage

import 'package:dart_polylabel2/dart_polylabel2.dart';

final polygon = [[(x: 0, y: 0), (x: 1, y: 0), (x: 1, y: 1), (x: 0, y: 1), (x: 0, y: 0)]];
final (point: (:x, :y), :distance) = polylabel(polygon);

Libraries

dart_polylabel2
A fast algorithm for finding polygon pole of inaccessibility implemented.