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We study the Art Gallery Problem for face guards in polyhedral environments. The problem can be informally stated as: how many (not necessarily convex) windows should we place on the external walls of a dark building, in order to completely…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-04-22 Giovanni Viglietta

Given a simple polygon $\cal P$, in the Art Gallery problem the goal is to find the minimum number of guards needed to cover the entire $\cal P$, where a guard is a point and can see another point $q$ when $\overline{pq}$ does not cross the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Arash Vaezi , Mohammad Ghodsi

We address recently proposed chromatic versions of the classic Art Gallery Problem. Assume a simple polygon $P$ is guarded by a finite set of point guards and each guard is assigned one of $t$ colors. Such a chromatic guarding is said to be…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-12-15 Frank Hoffmann , Klaus Kriegel , Max Willert

Given a simple polygon $\cal P$, in the Art Gallery problem, the goal is to find the minimum number of guards needed to cover the entire $\cal P$, where a guard is a point and can see another point $q$ when $\overline{pq}$ does not cross…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Arash Vaezi , Bodhayan Roy , Mohammad Ghodsi

A polygonal art gallery can be observed by guards placed at one third of its corners. However, the strategy of placing guards at every third corner does not work for all art galleries. In this note, we provide an example of a nine-sided art…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-06 Ralph Morrison

In this paper, we study the Contiguous Art Gallery Problem, introduced by Thomas C. Shermer at the 2024 Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry, a variant of the classical art gallery problem from 1973 by Victor Klee. In the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Magnus Christian Ring Merrild , Casper Moldrup Rysgaard , Jens Kristian Refsgaard Schou , Rolf Svenning

We study the art gallery problem for opposing half guards: guards that can either see to their left or to their right only. We present art gallery theorems, show that the location of half guards in 2-guardable polygons is not restricted to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Erik Krohn , Bengt J. Nilsson , Christiane Schmidt

We consider a variant of the art gallery problem where all guards are limited to seeing to the right inside a monotone polygon. We call such guards: half-guards. We provide a polynomial-time approximation for point guarding the entire…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Hannah Miller Hillberg , Erik Krohn , Alex Pahlow

We present two new versions of the chromatic art gallery problem that can improve upper bound of the required colors pretty well. In our version, we employ restricted angle guards so that these modern guards can visit $\alpha$-degree of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Hamid Hoorfar

The Art Gallery Problem (AGP) asks for placing a minimum number of stationary guards in a polygonal region P, such that all points in P are guarded. The problem is known to be NP-hard, and its inherent continuous structure (with both the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-12-19 Sándor P. Fekete , Stephan Friedrichs , Alexander Kröller , Christiane Schmidt

We prove that the art gallery problem is equivalent under polynomial time reductions to deciding whether a system of polynomial equations over the real numbers has a solution. The art gallery problem is a classical problem in computational…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Mikkel Abrahamsen , Anna Adamaszek , Tillmann Miltzow

We study the problem of guarding orthogonal art galleries with horizontal mobile guards (alternatively, vertical) and point guards, using "rectangular vision". We prove a sharp bound on the minimum number of point guards required to cover…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-07 Ervin Győri , Tamás Róbert Mezei

Given a closed simple polygon $P$, we say two points $p,q$ see each other if the segment $pq$ is fully contained in $P$. The art gallery problem seeks a minimum size set $G\subset P$ of guards that sees $P$ completely. The only currently…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Simon Hengeveld , Tillmann Miltzow

Let an orthogonal polyhedron be the union of a finite set of boxes in $\mathbb R^3$ (i.e., cuboids with edges parallel to the coordinate axes), whose surface is a connected 2-manifold. We study the NP-complete problem of guarding a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Giovanni Viglietta

We study the problem of colouring the vertices of a polygon, such that every viewer in it can see a unique colour. The goal is to minimise the number of colours used. This is also known as the conflict-free chromatic guarding problem with…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Onur Çağırıcı , Subir Kumar Ghosh , Petr Hliněný , Bodhayan Roy

There exist many variants of guarding an orthogonal polygon in an orthogonal fashion: sometimes a guard can see an entire rectangle, or along a staircase, or along an orthogonal path with at most $k$ bends. In this paper, we study all these…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-06-08 Therese Biedl , Saeed Mehrabi

In the problem "Localization and trilateration with the minimum number of landmarks", we faced the 3-Guard and classic Art Gallery Problems. The goal of the art gallery problem is to find the minimum number of guards within a simple polygon…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Bahram Sadeghi Bigham , Sahar Badri , Nazanin Padkan

We will consider some extensions of the polygonal art gallery problem. In a recent paper Morrison has shown the smallest (9 sides) example of an art gallery that cannot be observed by guards placed in every third corner. Author also…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Eryk Lipka

The Art Gallery Problem (AGP) is one of the classical problems in computational geometry. It asks for the minimum number of guards required to achieve visibility coverage of a given polygon. The AGP is well-known to be NP-hard even in…

The contiguous art gallery problem was introduced at SoCG'25 in a merged paper that combined three simultaneous results, each achieving a polynomial-time algorithm for the problem. This problem is a variant of the classical art gallery…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Sarita de Berg , Jacobus Conradi , Ivor van der Hoog , Frank Staals