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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

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

In the original Art Gallery Problem (AGP), one seeks the minimum number of guards required to cover a polygon $P$. We consider the Chromatic AGP (CAGP), where the guards are colored. As long as $P$ is completely covered, the number of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-03-13 Sándor P. Fekete , Stephan Friedrichs , Michael Hemmer

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

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

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 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

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 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

This paper studies a variant of the Art Gallery problem in which the ``walls" can be replaced by \emph{reflecting edges}, which allows the guards to see further and thereby see a larger portion of the gallery. Given a simple polygon $\cal…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Arash Vaezi , Bodhayan Roy , Mohammad Ghodsi

Recently, a natural variant of the Art Gallery problem, known as the \emph{Contiguous Art Gallery problem} was proposed. Given a simple polygon $P$, the goal is to partition its boundary $\partial P$ into the smallest number of contiguous…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Sarita de Berg , Jacobus Conradi , Ivor van der Hoog , Eva Rotenberg

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 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 study the classical Art Gallery Problem first proposed by Klee in 1973 from a mobile multi-agents perspective. Specifically, we require an optimally small number of agents (also called guards) to navigate and position themselves in the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Barath Ashok , John Augustine , Aditya Mehekare , Sridhar Ragupathi , Srikkanth Ramachandran , Suman Sourav

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 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 the art gallery problem, we are given a closed polygon $P$, with rational coordinates and an integer $k$. We are asked whether it is possible to find a set (of guards) $G$ of size $k$ such that any point $p\in P$ is seen by a point in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Lucas Meijer , Tillmann Miltzow

Let $P$ be a simple polygon, then the art gallery problem is looking for a minimum set of points (guards) that can see every point in $P$. We say two points $a,b\in P$ can see each other if the line segment $seg(a,b)$ is contained in $P$.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Daniel Bertschinger , Nicolas El Maalouly , Tillmann Miltzow , Patrick Schnider , Simon Weber

We study a class of geometric covering and packing problems for bounded regions on the plane. We are given a set of axis-parallel line segments that induces a planar subdivision with a set of bounded (rectilinear) faces. We are interested…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Satyabrata Jana , Supantha Pandit

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