另一个解决方案是;

const isClockwise = (vertices=[]) => {
    const len = vertices.length;
    const sum = vertices.map(({x, y}, index) => {
        let nextIndex = index + 1;
        if (nextIndex === len) nextIndex = 0;

        return {
            x1: x,
            x2: vertices[nextIndex].x,
            y1: x,
            y2: vertices[nextIndex].x
        }
    }).map(({ x1, x2, y1, y2}) => ((x2 - x1) * (y1 + y2))).reduce((a, b) => a + b);

    if (sum > -1) return true;
    if (sum < 0) return false;
}

把所有的顶点作为一个数组;

const vertices = [{x: 5, y: 0}, {x: 6, y: 4}, {x: 4, y: 5}, {x: 1, y: 5}, {x: 1, y: 0}];
isClockwise(vertices);

一些建议的方法在非凸多边形(如新月形)的情况下会失败。这里有一个简单的方法，它可以用于非凸多边形(它甚至可以用于自相交的多边形，如数字8，告诉你它是否主要是顺时针)。

对边求和，(x2−x1)(y2 + y1)如果结果是正的，曲线是顺时针的，如果结果是负的，曲线是逆时针的。(结果是封闭面积的两倍，采用+/-惯例。)

point[0] = (5,0)   edge[0]: (6-5)(4+0) =   4
point[1] = (6,4)   edge[1]: (4-6)(5+4) = -18
point[2] = (4,5)   edge[2]: (1-4)(5+5) = -30
point[3] = (1,5)   edge[3]: (1-1)(0+5) =   0
point[4] = (1,0)   edge[4]: (5-1)(0+0) =   0
                                         ---
                                         -44  counter-clockwise

我的c# / LINQ解决方案是基于下面@charlesbretana的交叉积建议的。你可以为线圈指定一个参考法线。只要曲线大部分在向上向量所定义的平面内，它就可以工作。

using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Numerics;

namespace SolidworksAddinFramework.Geometry
{
    public static class PlanePolygon
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Assumes that polygon is closed, ie first and last points are the same
        /// </summary>
       public static bool Orientation
           (this IEnumerable<Vector3> polygon, Vector3 up)
        {
            var sum = polygon
                .Buffer(2, 1) // from Interactive Extensions Nuget Pkg
                .Where(b => b.Count == 2)
                .Aggregate
                  ( Vector3.Zero
                  , (p, b) => p + Vector3.Cross(b[0], b[1])
                                  /b[0].Length()/b[1].Length());

            return Vector3.Dot(up, sum) > 0;

        } 

    }
}

使用单元测试

namespace SolidworksAddinFramework.Spec.Geometry
{
    public class PlanePolygonSpec
    {
        [Fact]
        public void OrientationShouldWork()
        {

            var points = Sequences.LinSpace(0, Math.PI*2, 100)
                .Select(t => new Vector3((float) Math.Cos(t), (float) Math.Sin(t), 0))
                .ToList();

            points.Orientation(Vector3.UnitZ).Should().BeTrue();
            points.Reverse();
            points.Orientation(Vector3.UnitZ).Should().BeFalse();



        } 
    }
}

下面是一个基于@Beta答案的算法的简单c#实现。

让我们假设我们有一个Vector类型，它的X和Y属性为double类型。

public bool IsClockwise(IList<Vector> vertices)
{
    double sum = 0.0;
    for (int i = 0; i < vertices.Count; i++) {
        Vector v1 = vertices[i];
        Vector v2 = vertices[(i + 1) % vertices.Count];
        sum += (v2.X - v1.X) * (v2.Y + v1.Y);
    }
    return sum > 0.0;
}

%是执行模运算的模运算符或余数运算符，该运算符(根据维基百科)在一个数除以另一个数后求余数。

根据@MichelRouzic评论的优化版本:

double sum = 0.0;
Vector v1 = vertices[vertices.Count - 1]; // or vertices[^1] with
                                          // C# 8.0+ and .NET Core
for (int i = 0; i < vertices.Count; i++) {
    Vector v2 = vertices[i];
    sum += (v2.X - v1.X) * (v2.Y + v1.Y);
    v1 = v2;
}
return sum > 0.0;

这不仅节省了模运算%，还节省了数组索引。

测试(参见与@WDUK的讨论)

public static bool IsClockwise(IList<(double X, double Y)> vertices)
{
    double sum = 0.0;
    var v1 = vertices[^1];
    for (int i = 0; i < vertices.Count; i++) {
        var v2 = vertices[i];
        sum += (v2.X - v1.X) * (v2.Y + v1.Y);
        Console.WriteLine($"(({v2.X,2}) - ({v1.X,2})) * (({v2.Y,2}) + ({v1.Y,2})) = {(v2.X - v1.X) * (v2.Y + v1.Y)}");
        v1 = v2;
    }
    Console.WriteLine(sum);
    return sum > 0.0;
}

public static void Test()
{
    Console.WriteLine(IsClockwise(new[] { (-5.0, -5.0), (-5.0, 5.0), (5.0, 5.0), (5.0, -5.0) }));

    // infinity Symbol
    //Console.WriteLine(IsClockwise(new[] { (-5.0, -5.0), (-5.0, 5.0), (5.0, -5.0), (5.0, 5.0) }));
}

Sean的答案的JavaScript实现:

function calcArea(poly) { if(!poly || poly.length < 3) return null; let end = poly.length - 1; let sum = poly[end][0]*poly[0][1] - poly[0][0]*poly[end][1]; for(let i=0; i<end; ++i) { const n=i+1; sum += poly[i][0]*poly[n][1] - poly[n][0]*poly[i][1]; } return sum; } function isClockwise(poly) { return calcArea(poly) > 0; } let poly = [[352,168],[305,208],[312,256],[366,287],[434,248],[416,186]]; console.log(isClockwise(poly)); let poly2 = [[618,186],[650,170],[701,179],[716,207],[708,247],[666,259],[637,246],[615,219]]; console.log(isClockwise(poly2));

我很确定这是对的。这似乎是有效的:-)

这些多边形看起来是这样的，如果你想知道的话:

这是我使用其他答案中的解释的解决方案:

def segments(poly):
    """A sequence of (x,y) numeric coordinates pairs """
    return zip(poly, poly[1:] + [poly[0]])

def check_clockwise(poly):
    clockwise = False
    if (sum(x0*y1 - x1*y0 for ((x0, y0), (x1, y1)) in segments(poly))) < 0:
        clockwise = not clockwise
    return clockwise

poly = [(2,2),(6,2),(6,6),(2,6)]
check_clockwise(poly)
False

poly = [(2, 6), (6, 6), (6, 2), (2, 2)]
check_clockwise(poly)
True