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 ...

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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.