Problem 1456. Beads on a Necklace (Convex Hulls)
We may describe a convex hull as a rubber band stretched around a list of points. Some of the points will be inside the rubber band, and some will define vertices of (or lie along the edge of) a convex polygon.
Given an n-by-2 list of points xy where each row describes a point, your job is to determine if all the points belong to the convex hull for those points. In the matrix xy, the x coordinate is the first column and the y coordinate is the second column.
So, for example, the points below form a single convex hull.
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In contrast, the points below do not, since the convex hull is a triangle that includes an interior point. Any polygon that includes all the points must necessarily be concave.
* * * *
Thus if
xy = [1 1;1 2;2 2;2 1]
then
allConvex(xy) => true
Whereas
xy = [1 1;3 1;2 2;2 3] allConvex(xy) => false
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