That parameter is mostly useless in practise, and likely has been
directly ported from the underlying `gdImagePolygon()` and friends,
which require that parameter since the number of elements of the point
array would otherwise be unknown. Typical usages of `imagepolygon()`,
`imageopenpolygon()` and `imagefilledpolygon()` pass `count($points)/2`
or hard-code this value as literal. Since explicitly specifying this
parameter is annoying and error-prone, we offer the possibility to omit
it, in which case the `$points` array must have an even number of
elements, and the number of points is calculated as `count($points)/2`.
Nikita Popov