> On Sep 13, 2016, at 7:20 AM, Lorenzo Isella <lorenzo.isella at
gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
> I would like to know if anybody is aware of an R implementation of a
> minimal bounding box ( http://bit.ly/2cKaSgT ) algorithm in R for
> points in 3 dimensions.
> It looks like there is no shortage of implementations in 2 dimensions,
> e.g.
>
> http://bit.ly/2cKaSh0
> http://bit.ly/2cKboLS
>
> but I cannot find any implementation for the 3D case.
There should be no difficulty finding functions that derive a convex hull in
three dimensions and the first answer to the first link above (on StackOverflow)
describes an algorithm that lets you go from a polyhedron to a bounding box.
> Many thanks
>
> Lorenzo
>
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