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Bounding rectangle (geometry)

The smallest rectangle that completely encloses all the pixels that are not fully transparent. Often used in fill algorithms in which tests are made to find out which pixels are inside and which are outside a polygon.

In imaging, the rectangle is usually rotationally restricted to be parallel to both image axes.

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