# rmslivers

Remove polyshape boundary outliers

## Description

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polyout = rmslivers(polyin,tol) returns a polyshape object made up of the boundaries of polyin with any outlier vertices removed. tol defines boundary outliers based on the ratio of relative distances between vertices.

## Examples

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Remove an outlier boundary point from a polygon, eliminating the extraneous sliver or antenna effect.

polyin = polyshape([0 0 2 2 1.0001 1 0.9999],[2 0 0 2 2 10 2]);
plot(polyin)
xlim([-0.5 2.5])
ylim([-2 12])

polyout = rmslivers(polyin,0.001);
plot(polyout)
xlim([-0.5 2.5])
ylim([-2 12])

## Input Arguments

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Input polyshape, specified as a scalar, vector, matrix, or multidimensional array.

Data Types: polyshape

Outlier tolerance, specified as a scalar. When the input polyshape is an array, rmslivers removes outliers from each element of the array according to tol.

Data Types: double | single | int8 | int16 | int32 | int64 | uint8 | uint16 | uint32 | uint64

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### Outlier Tolerance

The outlier tolerance specifies the allowable ratio between the relative distances of vertices in a polygon region. For example, in the following figure, if $\frac{a}{b}\le tol$ for a specified tolerance tol, then rmslivers does not remove the vertex v. If $\frac{a}{b}>tol$, then rmslivers removes v, eliminating the sliver.