Math friends have helped me refine my question to: find the minimum-area regular n-gon circumscribing n points.
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This is the biggest problem with learning math - no, not the minimum area thing - just describing what you want to know
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sorry I didn't get the question well enough.. If you want to circumscribe n points they have to be on the same circumference
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maybe your English friends can translate for us plebeians? :P
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Find the smallest polygon with n sides and equal angles which encloses a given set of n points.
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Could you just generate a bunch of n-gons in the right ballpark and pick the best one?
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Probably, yes!
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After some more thought, I'm pretty sure this isn't actually what you want.
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A minimum square bounding an isoceles triangle will suddenly flip 45 degrees as you increase the triangle width.
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