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We consider the problem of monitoring an art gallery modeled as a polygon, the edges of which are arcs of curves, with edge or mobile guards. Our focus is on piecewise-convex polygons, i.e., polygons that are locally convex, except possibly…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-03-01 Menelaos I. Karavelas

In this paper we study the art gallery problem, which is one of the fundamental problems in computational geometry. The objective is to place a minimum number of guards inside a simple polygon such that the guards together can see the whole…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-01-20 Mikkel Abrahamsen , Anna Adamaszek , Tillmann Miltzow

We examine the Art Gallery Problem with Edge Guards. We present a heuristic algorithm to arrange edge guards to guard only the inward side of the walls of any N-vertex simple polygonal gallery using at most roof (N/4) edge guards - a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2012-07-17 R. Nandakumar

We investigate the Dispersive Art Gallery Problem with vertex guards and rectangular visibility ($r$-visibility) for a class of orthogonal polygons that reflect the properties of real-world floor plans: these office-like polygons consist of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Sándor P. Fekete , Kai Kobbe , Dominik Krupke , Joseph S. B. Mitchell , Christian Rieck , Christian Scheffer

We explore an Art Gallery variant where each point of a polygon must be seen by k guards, and guards cannot see through other guards. Surprisingly, even covering convex polygons under this variant is not straightforward. For example,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-09-18 MIT CompGeom Group , Hugo A. Akitaya , Erik D. Demaine , Adam Hesterberg , Anna Lubiw , Jayson Lynch , Joseph O'Rourke , Frederick Stock

We study the problem of guarding the boundary of a simple polygon with a minimum number of guards such that each guard covers a contiguous portion of the boundary. First, we present a simple greedy algorithm for this problem that returns a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Ahmad Biniaz , Anil Maheshwari , Joseph S. B. Mitchell , Saeed Odak , Valentin Polishchuk , Thomas Shermer

We introduce a new variant of the art gallery problem that comes from safety issues. In this variant we are not interested in guard sets of smallest cardinality, but in guard sets with largest possible distances between these guards. To the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Christian Rieck , Christian Scheffer

Given a simple polygon $\mathcal{P}$ on $n$ vertices, two points $x,y$ in $\mathcal{P}$ are said to be visible to each other if the line segment between $x$ and $y$ is contained in $\mathcal{P}$. The Point Guard Art Gallery problem asks for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Édouard Bonnet , Tillmann Miltzow

The art gallery problem enquires about the least number of guards sufficient to ensure that an art gallery, represented by a simple polygon $P$, is fully guarded. Most standard versions of this problem are known to be NP-hard. In 1987,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Pritam Bhattacharya , Subir Kumar Ghosh , Sudebkumar Pal

The art gallery problem enquires about the least number of guards that are sufficient to ensure that an art gallery, represented by a polygon $P$, is fully guarded. In 1998, the problems of finding the minimum number of point guards, vertex…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Pritam Bhattacharya , Subir Kumar Ghosh , Bodhayan Roy

The boundary-boundary art-gallery problem asks, given a polygon $P$ representing an art-gallery, for a minimal set of guards that can see the entire boundary of $P$ (the wall of the art gallery), where the guards must be placed on the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Jack Stade

We prove that every simply connected orthogonal polygon of $n$ vertices can be partitioned into $\left\lfloor\frac{3 n +4}{16}\right\rfloor$ (simply connected) orthogonal polygons of at most 8 vertices. It yields a new and shorter proof of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-27 Ervin Győri , Tamás Róbert Mezei

We show the following problems are in $\textsf{P}$: 1. The contiguous art gallery problem -- a variation of the art gallery problem where each guard can protect a contiguous interval along the boundary of a simple polygon. This was posed at…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Eliot W. Robson , Jack Spalding-Jamieson , Da Wei Zheng

Given a simple polygon $\mathcal{P}$ on $n$ vertices, two points $x,y$ in $\mathcal{P}$ are said to be visible to each other if the line segment between $x$ and $y$ is contained in $\mathcal{P}$. The Point Guard Art Gallery problem asks for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-07-20 Édouard Bonnet , Tillmann Miltzow

Art Gallery is a fundamental visibility problem in Computational Geometry. The input consists of a simple polygon P, (possibly infinite) sets G and C of points within P, and an integer k; the task is to decide if at most k guards can be…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Akanksha Agrawal , Kristine V. K. Knudsen , Daniel Lokshtanov , Saket Saurabh , Meirav Zehavi

In any simple polygonal art gallery with n walls, we show that it is possible to place floor(n/2)-1 guards whose range of vision is 180 degrees in such a way that every interior point of the gallery can be seen by one of them, and such that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-09 Daniel Florentino , Ethan Moy , Robert Muth

Victor Klee introduce the art gallery problem during a conference in Stanford in August 1976 with that question: "How many guards are required to guard an art gallery?" In 1987, Ghosh provided an approximation algorithm for vertex guards…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Shiva Maleki , Ali Mohades

We study the Dispersive Art Gallery Problem with vertex guards: Given a polygon $\mathcal{P}$, with pairwise geodesic Euclidean vertex distance of at least $1$, and a rational number $\ell$; decide whether there is a set of vertex guards…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Sándor P. Fekete , Joseph S. B. Mitchell , Christian Rieck , Christian Scheffer , Christiane Schmidt

We resolve the complexity of the point-boundary variant of the art gallery problem, showing that it is $\exists\mathbb{R}$-complete, meaning that it is equivalent under polynomial time reductions to deciding whether a system of polynomial…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Jack Stade

The purpose of the current study is to investigate a special case of art gallery problem, namely Sculpture Garden Problem. In the said problem, for a given polygon $P$, the ultimate goal is to place the minimum number of guards to define…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Marzieh Eskandari , Bahram Sadeghi Bigham
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