Shapes/README.md

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SixLabors.Shapes
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**SixLabors.Shapes** is a new cross-platform 2D polygon manipulation API.

### Installation

**Pre-release downloads**

At present the code is pre-release we have initial pre-releases availible on [nuget](https://www.nuget.org/packages/SixLabors.Shapes/).

We also have a [MyGet package repository](https://www.myget.org/gallery/SixLabors) - for bleeding-edge / development NuGet releases.

### Manual build

If you prefer, you can compile SixLabors.Shapes yourself (please do and help!), you'll need:

- [Visual Studio 2017](https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/news/releasenotes/vs2017-relnotes)
- The [.NET Core 2.1 SDK Installer](https://www.microsoft.com/net/core#windows) - Non VSCode link.

To clone it locally click the "Clone in Windows" button above or run the following git commands.

```bash
git clone https://github.com/SixLabors/Shapes.git
```

### Features

- Point in Polygon
- Line Intersections
- Complex Polygons
- Simple polygon clipping
- Regular Polygons (triangles, squares, pentagons etc, any number of sides)
- Ellipses (and therfore circles)
- Shape Builder api - for creating shapes declaratively 
- Polygons
   - With Linear line segments
   - With Beziear curve line segments
   - Mixture of both Linear & bezier segments
- Paths
   - With Linear line segments
   - With Bezier curve line segments
   - Mixture of both Linear & bezier segments

### How can you help?

Please... Spread the word, contribute algorithms, submit performance improvements, unit tests. 

### Projects using SixLabors.Shapes

* [SixLabors.ImageSharp](https://github.com/SixLabors/ImageSharp) - cross platform, fully managed, image manipulation and drawing library.

### The SixLabors.Shapes Team

Lead
- [Scott Williams](https://github.com/tocsoft)

Core Team
- [Dirk Lemstra](https://github.com/dlemstra)
- [Anton Firsov](https://github.com/antonfirsov)
- [James Jackson-South](https://github.com/jimbobsquarepants)