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distance between a polytope point and a polytope vertex

How to find distance in between any polytope point to the closest vertex of the polytope (the verteces of the polytope are known)? How to find a distance from the farest polytope point to the closest ...
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Find outline of $N$ points in a plane

If I have $N$ point coordinates $P_i = ( x_i, \, y_i ) $ and I want to draw the outline connecting only the points on the "outside", what is the algorithm to do this? This is what I want to do: ...
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Convex Hull in Hierarchy Structure

As a beggining to convex hull algorithms lecturer introduced the structure which it's called "Hierarchy Structure". Hierarchy Structure: in every given convex hull there is a maximum size convex hull ...
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Algorithm for Identifying Convex Kernel

What algorithms currently exist to determine the convex kernel of any low-dimensional set, especially a planar set? Also, if one exists, what research has been done on it and are there any references ...
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Convex hull has the smallest perimeter

How do you show that the convex hull of a given set of points S, always has the minimum perimeter ? By perimeter i mean the length of the boundary of the hull