Not an answer, just a thought.
It seems a bit too much to hope for.
Here are 100 points randomly sprinkled on the surface of an ellipsoid
in $\mathbb{R}^3$, and then projected to
two dimensions. No matter how the projection plane is oriented, the projected points are not
near the boundary of a two-dimensional convex set, but rather fill in the interior of such a set.
Ellipsoid http://cs.smith.edu/%7Eorourke/MathOverflow/Ell100.jpg
Joseph O'Rourke
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