Area of Parallelogram

We can get the third vector by cross product of two vectors, the new vector is perpendicular to the first vectors.
The length of the third vector is equal to the area of the parallelogram formed by \overrightarrow{u} and \overrightarrow{v}. But it’s a signed result for area.

\Vert\overrightarrow{u}\times\overrightarrow{v}\Vert =Area(\overrightarrow{u}\times\overrightarrow{v})=\Vert\overrightarrow{u}\Vert \Vert\overrightarrow{v}\Vert sin\theta

#include <CGAL/Exact_predicates_exact_constructions_kernel.h>
#include <CGAL/number_utils.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <cmath>

using namespace std;

typedef CGAL::Exact_predicates_exact_constructions_kernel K;
typedef K::Point_3 Point;
typedef K::Vector_3 Vector;

int main()
{
    CGAL::set_mode( cout, CGAL::IO::PRETTY );
    Vector U( Point(0, 0, 0 ), Point(2, 0, 0) );
    Vector V( Point(0, 0, 0 ), Point(3, 2, 0) );
    Vector W = CGAL::cross_product( U, V );
    auto tmp = W.squared_length(); // cpp11::result_of<typename R::Compute_square...>
    auto value = tmp.exact().get_d();
    double result = CGAL::sqrt( value );
    cout << result << endl;
    return 0;
}

Output:

4

Volume Of Triple Vectors

The volume of the vectors \overrightarrow{u}, \overrightarrow{v}, and \overrightarrow{w} can be calculated by determinant.

We need to use dot product and cross product in the process.

#include <CGAL/Exact_predicates_exact_constructions_kernel.h>
#include <CGAL/number_utils.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <cmath>

using namespace std;

typedef CGAL::Exact_predicates_exact_constructions_kernel K;
typedef K::Point_3 Point;
typedef K::Vector_3 Vector;

int main()
{
    CGAL::set_mode( cout, CGAL::IO::PRETTY );
    Vector U( Point(0, 0, 0 ), Point(2, 2, 0) );
    Vector V( Point(0, 0, 0 ), Point(4, 0, 0) );
    Vector W( Point(0, 0, 0 ), Point(2, 2, 4) );
    auto tmp = CGAL::cross_product( U, V ) * W;

    tmp = CGAL::abs( tmp.exact() );
    cout << tmp << endl;
    return 0;
}

Output:

32

We also know the geometry meaning of the determinant, it’s sign volumn value for three vectors.
Vol(\overrightarrow{u}, \overrightarrow{v}, \overrightarrow{w})=\vert det(\overrightarrow{u}, \overrightarrow{v}, \overrightarrow{w})\vert

So we can calculate the area by determinant.

    auto tmp = CGAL::determinant( U, V, W );
    tmp = CGAL::abs( tmp.exact() );
    cout << tmp << endl;
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