Inner-cover of non-convex shapes

We present an algorithm that for a given simple non-convex polygon P finds an approximate inner-cover by large convex polygons. The algorithm is based on an initial partitioning of P into a set C of disjoint convex polygons which are an exact tessellation of P. The algorithm then builds a set of large convex polygons contained in P by constructing the convex hulls of subsets of C. We discuss different strategies for selecting the subsets and we claim that in most cases our algorithm produces an effective approximation of P.