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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

Guarding a polygon with few guards is an old and well-studied problem in computational geometry. Here we consider the following variant: We assume that the polygon is orthogonal and thin in some sense, and we consider a point $p$ to guard a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-04-26 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

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 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

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

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 consider the watchman route problem for a $k$-transmitter watchman: standing at point $p$ in a polygon $P$, the watchman can see $q\in P$ if $\overline{pq}$ intersects $P$'s boundary at most $k$ times -- $q$ is $k$-visible to $p$.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Bengt J. Nilsson , Christiane Schmidt

This paper addresses the problem of tracking mobile intruders in a polygonal environment. We assume that a team of diagonal guards is deployed inside the polygon to provide mobile coverage. First, we formulate the problem of tracking a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Guillermo J. Laguna , Sourabh Bhattacharya

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

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

Art Gallery Localization (AGL) is the problem of placing a set $T$ of broadcast towers in a simple polygon $P$ in order for a point to locate itself in the interior. For any point $p \in P$: for each tower $t \in T \cap V(p)$ (where $V(p)$…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Prosenjit Bose , Jean-Lou De Carufel , Alina Shaikhet , Michiel Smid

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

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

A sliding camera inside an orthogonal polygon $P$ is a point guard that travels back and forth along an orthogonal line segment $\gamma$ in $P$. The sliding camera $g$ can see a point $p$ in $P$ if the perpendicular from $p$ onto $\gamma$…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-04-26 Therese Biedl , Timothy M. Chan , Stephanie Lee , Saeed Mehrabi , Fabrizio Montecchiani , Hamideh Vosoughpour

We explore the problem of $M$-guarding polygons with holes using $k$-visibility guards, where a set of guards is said to $M$-guard a polygon if every point in the polygon is visible to at least $M$ guards, with the constraint that there may…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Yeganeh Bahoo , Ahmad Kamaludeen

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

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

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

We provide a spectrum of results for the Universal Guard Problem, in which one is to obtain a small set of points ("guards") that are "universal" in their ability to guard any of a set of possible polygonal domains in the plane. We give…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Sándor P. Fekete , Qian Li , Joseph S. B. Mitchell , Christian Scheffer