Problem 820. Eliminate unnecessary polygon vertices

Nicely done! Do you think we've converged on the optimum yet?

Cheers, obviously I shamelessly adopted your favourite function.
I honestly thought we'd converged to an optimum (although a slightly distorted use of that word) back at around 64, then 55, then 48... so I only tentatively think we've reached the end. I'd certainly be relieved to call it a draw :)

I thought that maybe we could get rid of the extra arguments to sum(,2) and any(,2) by converting to a row matrix, but doing so would add arguments circshift(), so that way may not have any improvements left.

I do know that *every single line* of our function generates an M-Lint warning :) Oh, except the function name now.

Yeah, I tried all sorts of ways to do that too! I was trying to figure out a better way to normalise the matrix. I discovered normr, posted my solution, and then realised that it was actually a toolbox function. I'd be happy to have that entry removed :| If you replace the normalisation line with normr(diff(P)) you can get the 36