Noun
a polygon such that no side extended cuts any other side or vertex; it can be cut by a straight line in at most two points
Source: WordNetA cyclic polygon is any convex polygon about which a circle can be circumscribed, passing through each vertex. Source: Internet
Floater showed that a plane drawing of a 3-connected graph can be drawn without the boundary necessarily being a convex polygon. Source: Internet
In 1997, Michael S. Floater published a paper entitled "Parameterization and smooth approximation of surface triangulations" which extended Tutte’s original theorem on the existence of a plane drawing of a 3-connected graph bounded by a convex polygon. Source: Internet
The n external angles of any n-sided convex polygon add up to 360 degrees. Source: Internet
To use this method, every proposed district is circumscribed by the smallest possible convex polygon (similar to the concept of a convex hull ; think of stretching a rubberband around the outline of the district). Source: Internet