convex_hull - convex hull of a set of points in the plane
convex_hull finds the convex hull of a given set of n points in the plane. xy is the 2 x n matrix of the (x,y) coordinates of the given points. convex_hull returns in nhull the number of the points of the boundary of the convex hull and in ind the row vector (of size nhull ) giving the indices in xy of the points of the boundary. The order in ind corresponds to consecutive points on the boundary.
ta=[27 27 3 12 11 12 27 26 26 25 25 24 23 23 21 22 21 20 19 18 18];
ta=[ta 16 15 15 14 12 9 10 6 9 17 8 17 10 20 11 23 23 12 18 28];
he=[ 1 2 2 4 5 11 13 1 25 22 24 22 22 19 13 13 14 16 16 9 16];
he=[he 10 10 11 12 2 6 5 5 7 8 7 9 6 11 4 18 13 3 28 17];
g=make_graph('foo',0,28,ta,he);
xx=[46 120 207 286 366 453 543 544 473 387 300 206 136 250 346 408];
g('node_x')=[xx 527 443 306 326 196 139 264 55 58 46 118 513];
yy=[36 34 37 40 38 40 35 102 102 98 93 96 167 172 101 179];
g('node_y')=[yy 198 252 183 148 172 256 259 258 167 109 104 253];
show_graph(g);
xy=[g('node_x');g('node_y')];
[nhull,ind] = convex_hull(xy)
show_nodes(ind);