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If I am drawing a triangle with and open the png (in PS) I see an unexpected result: looking at the lower left corner I see on the left side a black and a gray line and on the bottom only a gray line. With -strokewidth 2 I expected on both sides two black lines. If I am using -strokewidth 1 there is at the bottom no black or gray line at all. For such compositing masks I need pixel exact surroundings of polygons so how can I fix this? Thanks!

One of the lines of the triangles is outside the image. When an image is 1000x1000 pixels, the bottom-right pixel is at 999,999.

So I think it is better to forget the stroke command and adapt the coordinates to simulate a kind of shrinking or pushing them away from the image edges.
For a strokewidth=1 this would be 1,1 999,999 1,999. But how can this adaption be made for arbitrary polygons? Ad hoc I would dissect the
image in four quadrants and make a distinction of cases to add/subtract the strokewidth like (x+s, y-s) for the lower-left quadrant.

I don't know what you are trying to do, so I don't know if you need a stroke. If you have a stroke, I suggest you experiment with the stroke colour different to the fill and the background. Then you can see it.

Normally, all polygon vertices should be in the range 0 to 999. If a vertex is outside the image, the polygon will be clipped.

I need a black hull/shell around a white polygon with a specified thickness. If those polygons are composed together with no overlap this simulates a controlled gap artifact (see https://www.flickr.com/photos/gbachelier/27419431099) that can be used as a mask to correct such kind of artifacts in a color composing.