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getConvexHull</H3>
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public <A HREF="../../../../com/vividsolutions/jts/geom/Geometry.html" title="class in com.vividsolutions.jts.geom">Geometry</A> <B>getConvexHull</B>()</PRE>
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<DD>Returns a <A HREF="../../../../com/vividsolutions/jts/geom/Geometry.html" title="class in com.vividsolutions.jts.geom"><CODE>Geometry</CODE></A> that represents the convex hull of the input
 geometry.
 The returned geometry contains the minimal number of points needed to
 represent the convex hull.  In