• Shoelace-formula signed area of a closed 2D polygon, expressed as a tuple array of vertices in walk order. Sign indicates orientation — positive when the polygon is wound CCW (in the usual math y-up convention) or CW (in image y-down convention with the 1-region on the LEFT of the contour walk). Magnitude is the unsigned area.

    The first vertex does NOT need to be repeated at the end — the loop closes implicitly.

    Parameters

    Returns number