Detecting shapes
The detection of shapes with the Hough transform is limited to circles; however, we already implicitly explored detecting shapes of any kind, specifically when we talked about approxPolyDP. This function allows the approximation of polygons, so if your image contains polygons, they will be quite accurately detected, combining the usage of cv2.findContours and cv2.approxPolyDP.
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