# How to create Minimum bounding shapes such as ellipse, triangle, quadrilateral from a given 2d shape

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**Created:** [April 17, 2021, 7:23pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-to-create-minimum-bounding-shapes-such-as-ellipse-triangle-quadrilateral-from-a-given-2d-shape/29460 "2021-04-17T19:23:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![micycle](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/micycle/32/201_2.png) [@micycle](https://discourse.processing.org/u/micycle)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2022, 5:20pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-to-create-minimum-bounding-shapes-such-as-ellipse-triangle-quadrilateral-from-a-given-2d-shape/29460/9 "2022-01-06T17:20:00Z")

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[Processing Geometry Suite](https://discourse.processing.org/t/processing-geometry-suite/29924) now has a robust _Minimum Bounding Triangle_ method (first Java implementation as far as I can tell).

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