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Gift Wrapping Algorithm


Description
The gift-wrapping algorithm is used to compute the convex hull of a set of points by starting from the lowest point, and tracing the boundary in the anti-clockwise sense, using the minimum angle criterion.


Computational Geometry
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R. Mukundan
Department of Computer Science
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800, Christchurch
New Zealand.