Compute the area of intersection between a circle and a triangle?

Question

How does one compute the area of intersection between a triangle (specified as three (X,Y) pairs) and a circle (X,Y,R)? I\'ve done some searching to no avail. This is for

Answer 1

How exact do you need to be? If you can approximate the circle with simpler shapes, you can simplify the problem. It wouldn't be hard to model a circle as a set of very narrow triangles meeting at the center, for example.