Figure 1.8.6: Finding the RIGHT and BACK+LEFT "hull" anchors In the example the RIGHT anchor is found when the normal line (shown in red) is tangent to the shape at ... The figure shows a large ...

For what it’s worth I have not seen a ton of “Travis Hunter could win BOTH Rookie of the Year awards” but I will say that ...

This algorithm has quadratic run time so it can be slow with large profiles. The "tangent" method generally produces good results when connecting a discrete polygon to a convex, finely sampled curve.