This is a Java Program to find the area of a triangle using determinant method.
Formula for the area of a triangle using determinants
Formula for the area of a triangle using determinants
|x1 y1 1|
Area = ±1/2 |x2 y2 1|
|x3 y3 1|
The plus/minus in this case is meant to take whichever sign is needed so the answer is positive (non-negative). Do not say the area is both positive and negative.
Here is the source code of the Java Program to Compute the Area of a Triangle Using Determinants. The Java program is successfully compiled and run on a Windows system. The program output is also shown below.
//This is a java program to find the area of triangle using method of determinants
import java.util.Random;
public class Area_Triangle_Determinants
{
public static double determinant(double A[][], int N)
{
double det = 0;
if (N == 1)
{
det = A[0][0];
} else if (N == 2)
{
det = A[0][0] * A[1][1] - A[1][0] * A[0][1];
} else
{
det = 0;
for (int j1 = 0; j1 < N; j1++)
{
double[][] m = new double[N - 1][];
for (int k = 0; k < (N - 1); k++)
{
m[k] = new double[N - 1];
}
for (int i = 1; i < N; i++)
{
int j2 = 0;
for (int j = 0; j < N; j++)
{
if (j == j1)
continue;
m[i - 1][j2] = A[i][j];
j2++;
}
}
det += Math.pow(-1.0, 1.0 + j1 + 1.0) * A[0][j1]
* determinant(m, N - 1);
}
}
return det;
}
public static void main(String args[])
{
Random random = new Random();
int x1, x2, x3, y1, y2, y3;
x1 = random.nextInt(10);
x2 = random.nextInt(10);
x3 = random.nextInt(10);
y1 = random.nextInt(10);
y2 = random.nextInt(10);
y3 = random.nextInt(10);
double[][] mat = new double[3][3];
mat[0][0] = x1;
mat[0][1] = y1;
mat[0][2] = 1;
mat[1][0] = x2;
mat[1][1] = y2;
mat[1][2] = 1;
mat[2][0] = x3;
mat[2][1] = y3;
mat[2][2] = 1;
System.out
.println("The matrix formed by the coordinates of the triangle is: ");
for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
{
for (int j = 0; j < 3; j++)
System.out.print(mat[i][j] + " ");
System.out.println();
}
double det = determinant(mat, 3) * 0.5;
if (det < 0)
System.out.println("The Area of the triangle formed by (" + x1
+ "," + y1 + "), (" + x2 + "," + y2 + "), (" + x3 + ","
+ y3 + ") = " + (det * -1));
else
System.out.println("The Area of the triangle formed by (" + x1
+ "," + y1 + "), (" + x2 + "," + y2 + "), (" + x3 + ","
+ y3 + ") = " + det);
}
}
Output:
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$ javac Area_Triangle_Determinants.java $ java Area_Triangle_Determinants The matrix formed by the coordinates of the triangle is: 3.0 4.0 1.0 6.0 4.0 1.0 3.0 9.0 1.0 The Area of the triangle formed by (3,4), (6,4), (3,9) = 7.5
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