ST_Tesselate
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Name

ST_Tesselate — Perform surface Tessellation of a polygon or polyhedralsurface and returns as a TIN or collection of TINS

Synopsis

geometry ST_Tesselate ( geometry geom ) ;


	ST_Tesselate is deprecated as of 3.5.0. Use CG_Tesselate instead.

Takes as input a surface such a MULTI(POLYGON) or POLYHEDRALSURFACE and returns a TIN representation via the process of tessellation using triangles.


	ST_TriangulatePolygon does similar to this function except that it returns a geometry collection of polygons instead of a TIN and also only works with 2D geometries.

Availability: 2.1.0

This method needs SFCGAL backend.

This function supports 3d and will not drop the z-index.

This function supports Polyhedral surfaces.

This function supports Triangles and Triangulated Irregular Network Surfaces (TIN).