$points = shape(8,100);

$points = translatePolygon($points,100,100);

$image = imagecreatetruecolor(200,200);

$white = imagecolorallocate($image,255,255,255);

imagefill($image,0,0,$white);

$red = imagecolorallocate($image,150,0,0);

imagefilledpolygon($image,$points,(count($points)/2),$red);

header("Content-type: image/jpeg");

imagejpeg($image);

imagedestroy($image);

function shape($number_of_edges,$radius=100) {

$p = array();

$degrees = 360/$number_of_edges;

for ($i=0;$i<$number_of_edges;$i++) {

$cos = cos(deg2rad($degrees*$i));

$sin = sin(deg2rad($degrees*$i));

$x = 0;

$y = $radius;

$p[] = round($cos*($x) - $sin*($y));

$p[] = round($sin*($x) + $cos*($y));

return $p;

function translatePolygon($points,$x=0,$y=0) {

for($i=0;$i<count($points);$i+=2) {

$points[$i] = $points[$i] + $x;

$points[$i+1] = $points[$i+1] + $y;

return $points;

After running the program you will get the following output

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