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Vector Centroid

The Centroid finds the center point of a polygon and outputs it as a vector point

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Written by Holly Conrad Smith
Updated over 3 weeks ago

A centroid is the "balance point" or center of mass of a shape. For weird shapes like a crescent moon, the center might be in empty space while the centroid is always somewhere on the actual shape.

Category: Geometric Operations

Kind: Operation

Description: Returns the centroid of a geometry

Inputs

Name

Abbreviation

Type

Access

Description

Feature

F

Cartesian

Item

The geometry

Outputs

Name

Abbreviation

Type

Access

Description

Vector

V

Vector

Item

The centroid

  1. Get a geometry

    You can use read feature or any output of another geometric operation

    If working with Lists, use map to get the centroid of each list item

  2. Add the centroid node

    The output is the visual center point of the input geometry

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