Rectilinear Polygon Extractor

Description

This is a tool that converts an image with a transparent background to a recilinear polygone. It outputs the points as JSON or SVG if the program is ran with --output-as-svg.

Catch

This program can't handle:

• Single pixel images

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• Images with a protruding single pixel

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• Images that contain a multiple sections

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Build

gcc -o nobuild nobuild.c
./nobuild