Discretizing 2D Images Into Polygonal and Point Models

Simplifying complex images into a simple data format

Tim Chinenov
Towards Data Science
3 min readApr 22, 2019

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The real world is all curvy and complicated. With burgeoning robotic technology and autonomous vehicles there is a common need to simplify objects in more manageable forms. Additionally, our world is continuous (for the most part), yet our technology interprets content digitally. So, for any world interaction there will be some level of discretization.

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