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A terrain is an $x$-monotone polygon whose lower boundary is a single line segment. We present an algorithm to find in a terrain a triangle of largest area in $O(n \log n)$ time, where $n$ is the number of vertices defining the terrain. The…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Sergio Cabello , Arun Kumar Das , Sandip Das , Joydeep Mukherjee

Given two convex polygons $P$ and $Q$ with $n$ and $m$ edges, the maximum overlap problem is to find a translation of $P$ that maximizes the area of its intersection with $Q$. We give the first randomized algorithm for this problem with…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Timothy M. Chan , Isaac M. Hair

We study approximation algorithms for the following geometric version of the maximum coverage problem: Let $\mathcal{P}$ be a set of $n$ weighted points in the plane. Let $D$ represent a planar object, such as a rectangle, or a disk. We…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-12-08 Kai Jin , Jian Li , Haitao Wang , Bowei Zhang , Ningye Zhang

In the maximum independent set of convex polygons problem, we are given a set of $n$ convex polygons in the plane with the objective of selecting a maximum cardinality subset of non-overlapping polygons. Here we study a special case of the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Fabrizio Grandoni , Edin Husić , Mathieu Mari , Antoine Tinguely

A small polygon is a convex polygon of unit diameter. We are interested in small polygons which have the largest area for a given number of vertices $n$. Many instances are already solved in the literature, namely for all odd $n$, and for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-03-24 Didier Henrion , Frederic Messine

This paper attacks the following problem. We are given a large number $N$ of rectangles in the plane, each with horizontal and vertical sides, and also a number $r<N$. The given list of $N$ rectangles may contain duplicates. The problem is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-28 David B. A. Epstein , Mike Paterson

We study the maximum weight convex polytope problem, in which the goal is to find a convex polytope maximizing the total weight of enclosed points. Prior to this work, the only known result for this problem was an $O(n^3)$ algorithm for the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Mohammad Ali Abam , Ali Mohammad Lavasani , Denis Pankratov

Given a set R of n red points and a set B of m blue points, we study the problem of finding a rectangle that contains all the red points, the minimum number of blue points and has the largest area. We call such rectangle a maximum…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Bogdan Armaselu , Ovidiu Daescu

The objective here is to find the maximum polygon, in area, which can be enclosed in a given triangle, for the polygons: parallelograms, rectangles and squares. It will initially be assumed that the choices are inscribed polygons, that is…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2025-01-15 James M Parks

A fundamental problem in shape matching and geometric similarity is computing the maximum area overlap between two polygons under translation. For general simple polygons, the best-known algorithm runs in $O((nm)^2 \log(nm))$ time [Mount,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Mikkel Abrahamsen , Sujoy Bhore , Maike Buchin , Jacobus Conradi , Ce Jin , André Nusser , Carolin Rehs

We show that the maximum number of convex polygons in a triangulation of $n$ points in the plane is $O(1.5029^n)$. This improves an earlier bound of $O(1.6181^n)$ established by van Kreveld, L\"offler, and Pach (2012) and almost matches the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-10 Adrian Dumitrescu , Csaba D. Tóth

Given a set of $n$ points in the plane, and a parameter $k$, we consider the problem of computing the minimum (perimeter or area) axis-aligned rectangle enclosing $k$ points. We present the first near quadratic time algorithm for this…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Timothy M. Chan , Sariel Har-Peled

We study the Maximum Independent Set of Rectangles (MISR) problem: given a set of $n$ axis-parallel rectangles, find a largest-cardinality subset of the rectangles, such that no two of them overlap. MISR is a basic geometric optimization…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-02 Julia Chuzhoy , Alina Ene

We develop two simple and efficient approximation algorithms for the continuous $k$-medians problems, where we seek to find the optimal location of $k$ facilities among a continuum of client points in a convex polygon $C$ with $n$ vertices…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Reyhaneh Mohammadi , Raghuveer Devulapalli , Mehdi Behroozi

There is a high demand of space-efficient algorithms in built-in or embedded softwares. In this paper, we consider the problem of designing space-efficient algorithms for computing the maximum area empty rectangle (MER) among a set of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-04-18 Minati De , Subhas C. Nandy

A convex polygon $Q$ is inscribed in a convex polygon $P$ if every side of $P$ contains at least one vertex of $Q$. We present algorithms for finding a minimum area and a minimum perimeter convex polygon inscribed in any given convex…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-24 Csenge Lili Ködmön , Zsolt Lángi

A $1.5$D terrain is a simple polygon bounded by a line segment $\ell$ and a polygonal chain monotone with respect to the line segment $\ell$. Usually, $\ell$ is chosen aligned to the $x$-axis, and is called the base of the terrain. In this…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Nandana Ghosh , Rakesh Gupta , Ankush Acharyya

A high-level description of an algorithm which computes the minimum perimeter triangle enclosing a convex polygon in linear time exists in the literature. Besides that an implementation of the algorithm is given in the subsequent work.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-08 V. Ermolaev

We revisit a classical problem in computational geometry: finding the largest-volume axis-aligned empty box (inside a given bounding box) amidst $n$ given points in $d$ dimensions. Previously, the best algorithms known have running time…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Timothy M. Chan

We consider the planar two-center problem for a convex polygon: given a convex polygon in the plane, find two congruent disks of minimum radius whose union contains the polygon. We present an $O(n\log n)$-time algorithm for the two-center…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Jongmin Choi , Dahye Jeong , Hee-Kap Ahn