Largest possible rectangle inside closed curve

[Joseph_Oster]

Find the largest possible rectangle inside an irregular closed curve

Largest ellipse inscribed in a polygon

Hello all. I am looking for a way to inscribe the largest possible ellipse in a convex polygon. With some effort looking, I have found a possible approach, as: Biggest ellipse included in a convex polygon which has code, written in matlab, that appears to work well, based off of approach suggested by chapter 8 of Boyd & Vandenberghe’s Convex Optimization Unfortunately I never have learned matlab, and am unsure how to convert this code to C or Python. Has anyone coded up an approach for this…