We prove that a unique simple polygon is determined, up to similarity, by t
he interior angles at its vertices and the cross-ratios of diagonals of any
given triangulation. (The cross-ratio of a diagonal is the product of the
ratio of edge lengths for the two adjacent triangles.) This establishes a c
onjecture of Driscoll and Vavasis, and shows the correctness of a key step
of their algorithm for computing Schwarz-Christoffel transformations mappin
g a disk to a polygon.