Talk:Gift wrapping algorithm

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I think this article needs an explanation why it's supposedly O(NK). I don't see why that would be the case. It seems O(N²K) to me. -- Timwi 22:07, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Answer: the outer loop runs K times (since it finds one point on the convex hull during each iteration) while the inner loop (which is not spelled out in the article) runs up to N-1 times. Hence O(K*N).

Where did you get N² from? `'mikka (t) 23:40, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

The cited Introduction To Algorithms (a must have!) explains the performance. Wouter Lievens 22:59, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

The citationd doesn't outline higher dimensional extensions, does anyone know about this 129.78.64.106 01:50, 1 February 2007 (UTC)