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Silly question, how would one calculate the area of something like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golygon And not just the simple example they have in the picture.

Is it any different from a normal polygon?

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    Divide it into disjoint rectangles, compute the area of the smaller rectangles, and add them up. – 2017-01-10
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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick's_theorem – 2017-01-10

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You can easily use the $Pick's$ $theorem$, it is very useful for calculating the exact area of complicated shapes.$$A=i+\frac {b}{2}-1$$ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick%27s_theorem

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    I like this method but perhaps for those who have not seen the theorem it might be nice to define the variables? – 2017-01-10
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You can just break it into things whose area you know, and then add everything up. Since the golygon only has right angles, I would suggest rectangles and squares.

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    Awesome, thanks! – 2017-01-11