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@ferk6a ferk6a commented Oct 12, 2021

This fixes the convex hull page which was a tad confusing. The title of the page was "Convex Hull construction using Graham's Scan", and the reader is presented with the Monotone Chain algorithm by Andrew's instead (and no mention of the name "Monotone Chain", although Andrew's name is subtly in there), rather than the original Graham's Scan. So in this PR we:

  • Rename the page from "Convex Hull construction using Graham's Scan" to just "Convex Hull construction".
  • Add the original Graham's Scan to the page, along with renaming the existing code to Monotone Chain.
  • Add collinearity options for both algorithms, along with a explanation of the change required in Graham's Scan.
  • Add substantial testing for everything added.
  • Add a new convex hull problem: Onion Layers.

I think the convex hull explanation is far from ideal, but the changes seem to me like a good improvement. I'm also not sure on the convention for filenames, I used dashes in the Markdown files and underscores in source code files.

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Thanks. That looks like a pretty good addition.
I'll try to review it in the next couple of days. Sorry for the long wait.

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Hey.
Sorry again for the long wait. I've been really busy.

The article looks really clean, thanks for all the work.
I haven't checked every single line of the code, but I tried some tricky examples myself, and everything looks good.

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jakobkogler commented Oct 25, 2021

And like you said, some parts of the explanation could use some improvements. E.g. I didn't understand why we only need to reverse the last few collinear points, and e.g. not collinear points somewhere in the middle (I eventually figured it out by looking at some examples).
But the article is already a lot better, so I'm very happy to merge it.
Thanks again ❤️ 🙇‍♂️

@jakobkogler jakobkogler merged commit 2313f8d into cp-algorithms:master Oct 25, 2021
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