Does all the points in the ourput of convexHull function, a part of the convex hull formed?

I have given a 3D data as input into the function convhull. The output given is a triplet. What does the triplet mean? Does the numbers signify the indices of the coordinates of the input matrix of points? Do all the points in the output indicate the convex hull formed??

[José-Luis]

convexHull does not appear to be a built-in Matlab function. The built-in function is convhull, which works with two-dimensional data.

Maybe you should have a look at convhulln().

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[Steven Lord]

I believe you're using the convexHull method for delaunayTriangulation objects. The documentation page states that the first output argument of that method in the case of a 3-D triangulation object is:

 When DT is 3-D, K is a triangulation connectivity list containing the triangles on the convex hull.

So it lists which triangles in the Delaunay triangulation (in terms of indices into the delaunayTriangulation object's ConnectivityList property) make up the convex hull.

[Rishika Sen]

So removing all the points in K would result in removal of the hull right?