[R-sig-eco] Quantifying widths of polygons

Hello all, I am working with data on tree crowns, and this data describes points (verticies) around the polyhedron of the crown volume (think of the crown as a single volume with vertices and faces). I can calculate maximum z distance between any 2 points (maximum depth) and maximum x/y

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Re: [R-sig-eco] Quantifying widths of polygons

One metric for an "average width" that would be quick to calculate might be the diameter of a circle that has the same area as the polygon. (Of course, if the tree crowns are nowhere near circular, this won't likely be a useful metric.) Maybe there might be a similar approach for finding an