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Jarvis's March Algorithm

This document discusses algorithms for finding the convex hull of a set of points. It describes five common algorithms: Gift-Wrapping (Jarvis March), Graham's Scan, Quickhull, Divide and Conquer, and Monotone Chain. It then provides more detail on the Jarvis March algorithm, explaining that it has a runtime of O(nh) where n is the number of points and h is the number of points in the convex hull. It notes that Jarvis March is most efficient when h is low while Divide and Conquer is faster when h is higher.

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Jarvis's March Algorithm

This document discusses algorithms for finding the convex hull of a set of points. It describes five common algorithms: Gift-Wrapping (Jarvis March), Graham's Scan, Quickhull, Divide and Conquer, and Monotone Chain. It then provides more detail on the Jarvis March algorithm, explaining that it has a runtime of O(nh) where n is the number of points and h is the number of points in the convex hull. It notes that Jarvis March is most efficient when h is low while Divide and Conquer is faster when h is higher.

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Convex Sets and Hulls

The polygon connecting the exterior points of a set of points such that there
is no convexity between any of the exterior points

Possible Algorithms
1) Gift-Wrapping (Jarvis March) Algorithm
2) Graham's Scan Algorithm
3) Quickhull
4) Divide and Conquer
5) Monotone Chain
6) Incremental Convex Hull Algorithm

Applications
- Collision Detection in 3D models
- Animation
- Object Recognition
- Segmentation of Regions in Rn

The Jarvis March Algorithm


O(nh)

Start at an extreme point


x;
find the furtherest of the
angularly minimal points
from x;
Add this point to the
hull;
move to it;
continue until you return
to the first point.
There will be
h hull points

At each hull point h0, the angle made by


the line joining h0 with all n points in
the dataset is needed. This is an O(n)
repeated h times.

Complexity and Caveats


Runtime O(nh)
Runtime proportional to the number of hull points- most efficient for data distributions
with few outliers. Divide and Conquer algorithm faster for distributions with higher h.
Best implemented with points stored in a contiguous array as index will speed up angle
computations and comparison.
Scalable to higher dimensions, does not lose efficiency if h stays low.

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