namespace CGAL {
/*!

\mainpage User Manual 
\anchor Chapter_Inscribed_Areas
\anchor chapInscribedAreas

\authors Michael Hoffmann and Eli Packer 

This chapter describes algorithms which for a given point set compute
the "best" inscribed object from a specific class.

\section Inscribed_areasMaximal Maximal inscribes k-gons
 We provide algorithms for
computing maximal inscribed \f$ k\f$-gons (triangles, quadrilaterals,
\f$ \dots\f$ ) of a planar point set \f$ P\f$. Maximal \f$ k\f$-gons are convex, and it
is known that their vertices can be chosen to be vertices of the
convex hull of \f$ P\f$. Hence, the functions
`maximum_area_inscribed_k_gon_2()` and
`maximum_perimeter_inscribed_k_gon_2()` operate on convex polygons
only. The example below shows that the largest area triangle (green)
and the largest perimeter triangle (orange, containing the top point)
of a point set are different in general.

\image html max_triangle.png
\image latex max_triangle.png



Inscribed volumes are also frequently applied to extract
geometric properties of objects. The largest area triangle is for example used in
heuristics for matching archaeological aerial photographs. Largest
perimeter triangles are used in scoring cross country soaring flights,
where the goal is basically to fly as far as possible, but still
return to the departure airfield. To score simply based on the total
distance flown is not a good measure, since circling in thermals
allows to increase it easily.

\section Inscribed_areasLargest Largest Empty Rectange

We further provide an algorithm for computing the maximal area
inscribed axis parallel rectangle for a point set.

Given a set of points in the plane, the class `Largest_empty_iso_rectangle_2<T>`
is a data structure that maintains an iso-rectangle with the largest area among
all iso-rectangles that are inside a given iso-rectangles, and
that do not contain any point of the point set.

\image html largestEmptyRect.png
\image latex largestEmptyRect.png
*/ 
} /* namespace CGAL */

