Use, modification & distribution is subject to Boost Software License Ver 1. http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt Attributions: The code in this library is an extension of Bala Vatti's clipping algorithm: "A generic solution to polygon clipping" Communications of the ACM, Vol 35, Issue 7 (July 1992) pp 56-63. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=129906 Computer graphics and geometric modeling: implementation and algorithms By Max K. Agoston Springer; 1 edition (January 4, 2005) http://books.google.com/books?q=vatti+clipping+agoston See also: "Polygon Offsetting by Computing Winding Numbers" Paper no. DETC2005-85513 pp. 565-575 ASME 2005 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE2005) September 24-28, 2005 , Long Beach, California, USA http://www.me.berkeley.edu/~mcmains/pubs/DAC05OffsetPolygon.pdf