Area and volume of a 3D convex hull

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Volume and area of a 3D convex hull.
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Takes an Nx3 matrix of vertices representing the extreme points of a surface, calls convexhulln to get a convex hull of these points, and uses the resulting facet list to compute the area of that convex hull. Vectorized for speed.

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Malcolm A. MacIver (2026). Area and volume of a 3D convex hull (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/3321-area-and-volume-of-a-3d-convex-hull), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

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