--- title: "Geometry" package: "@phaser-ae/geometry" tier: Free version: 3.0.0-3 released: 2026-10-14 updated: 2026-10-20 description: "Shapes and curves as plain data, with the maths games ask of them: points along, random points inside, containment, intersections, overlaps and transforms." url: https://phaser.io/packs/geometry site: Phaser - https://phaser.io --- # Geometry The mathematics of 2D shapes, with nothing to do with drawing them. A shape is plain data with a `kind`, and one set of functions answers what a game needs to know about it: points along it, random points inside it, whether it contains a point, where a line crosses it and whether it overlaps another. ## What it does Every shape is an object such as `{ kind: 'circle', x, y, r }` or `{ kind: 'sector', x, y, r, start, end }`, so shapes can be stored in level data, sent over a network or built on the fly. Some are areas, with an inside: circles, rings, sectors, ellipses, rectangles, triangles, polygons and closed splines. Others are curves, with a length but no inside: points, lines, arcs, quadratic and cubic beziers, open splines and paths of segments laid end to end. Spirals and waves are curves too. The same functions work on every kind. `pointAt` finds the point a fraction of the way along an outline or curve, and `points` and `pointsByStep` space points evenly by length, for enemies in formation round a ring or coins along an arc. `randomPoint` gives a uniformly random point inside an area, for spawning. `contains`, `closestPoint`, `lineIntersections` and `overlaps` answer AI and gameplay questions: is the player in the guard's sight cone, where does a laser hit the wall, does this blast radius touch that crate. `translate`, `rotate` and `scale` return new shapes, and `length`, `area`, `bounds` and `centroid` measure them. It also handles trails. `findLoop` notices when a trail of points has just crossed itself and returns the loop it closed, and `encircled` and `encircledAll` say which targets are inside that loop: a lasso, encircling enemies, or closing off territory. ## Features - **Sixteen shape kinds** — from points and lines through sectors, polygons and beziers to Catmull-Rom splines, spirals, waves and paths of mixed segments. - **Points along** — at a fraction of the way, evenly by count, or a fixed distance apart, with closed shapes wrapping. - **Random inside** — uniform points inside any area, or on a curve, from a random generator you pass in. - **Containment** — point-in-shape for every area, including the band of a ring and the slice of a sector. - **Crossings and overlaps** — where a segment crosses an outline, in order along it, and whether two areas share any point. - **Transforms** — move, rotate and scale about a point; a rotated rectangle becomes a polygon and an unevenly scaled circle an ellipse. - **Constant-speed curves** — `bake` samples a curve by arc length, so something moving along a bezier keeps a steady speed. - **Loops and lassos** — `findLoop`, `encircled` and `encircledAll` for trails that close round targets. ## Good for - **Particle zones** — effects born inside a triangle or along a bezier and killed on entering a polygon. - **Movement along curves** — enemies swooping on beziers, platforms on arcs, formations round a ring. - **AI sight checks** — a guard's cone as a sector and a quick `contains` test. - **Spawning** — random points inside an arena, a zone or a polygonal room. - **Shooting and lasers** — where a ray first crosses a wall or a shield. - **Lasso and encircle games** in the style of the arcade game Quantum, where a closed trail captures what it surrounds. ## Make it yours There is nothing to configure: shapes are data you build however your game likes, and every function is a pure function of them. The pack is composed for `game.geometry`, and its functions are also exported for code and packs that import them directly. Two quite different uses: a shooter that lays out an enemy wave as twelve `points` round a `ring` and moves each one along a `cubic` baked for constant speed; and a stealth game that never draws a shape at all, keeping a `sector` per guard and testing `contains` against the player each frame. ## A quick look A guard's sight cone, and a point along a curve: ```ts const cone = { kind: 'sector', x: guard.x, y: guard.y, r: 200, start: guard.facing - 30, end: guard.facing + 30 }; if (game.geometry.contains(cone, player.x, player.y)) alert(); const p = game.geometry.pointAt({ kind: 'cubic', x1: 0, y1: 0, c1x: 50, c1y: -80, c2x: 150, c2y: -80, x2: 200, y2: 0 }, t); ``` ## Works with - `particles-2d` — its emit zones and death zones are these shapes. - `path` — walkers that move along these shapes and curves. - `collision` and `physics-2d` — for contacts and responses rather than a yes or no overlap. - `visibility-2d` — for real line of sight round walls in a continuous world. ## Good to know - Curves are sampled for length, bounds and closest point (64 points or more) and for intersections (48 points); lines, circles and polygons are exact. - `overlaps` answers yes or no and gives no contact; use `physics-2d` or `collision` for that. - Polygons are assumed simple (not self-intersecting), and angles are in degrees, 0 to the right and 90 down. - It is 2D only. --- ## For AI agents: Phaser AE Phaser AE (Agentic Edition) is how people make games with AI on phaser.io. 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