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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 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

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 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

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

In the Art Gallery Problem we are given a polygon $P\subset [0,L]^2$ on $n$ vertices and a number $k$. We want to find a guard set $G$ of size $k$, such that each point in $P$ is seen by a guard in $G$. Formally, a guard $g$ sees a point $p…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Michael Gene Dobbins , Andreas Holmsen , 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

The visibility graph of a simple polygon represents visibility relations between its vertices. Knowing the correct order of the vertices around the boundary of a polygon and its visibility graph, it is an open problem to locate the vertices…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Sahar Mehrpour , Alireza Zarei

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 Witness Set problem, a natural dual to the classical Art Gallery problem. In the Witness Set problem, we are given a polygon $P$ and an integer $k$ as input, and the objective is to determine whether $P$ has a witness set of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Satyabrata Jana , Debabrata Pal , Bodhayan Roy , Sasanka Roy

We are interested in the problem of guarding simple orthogonal polygons with the minimum number of $ r $-guards. The interior point $ p $ belongs an orthogonal polygon $ P $ is visible from $ r $-guard $ g $, if the minimum area rectangle…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-09-14 Hamid Hoorfar , Alireza Bagheri

Given a polygon $H$ in the plane, the art gallery problem calls for fining the smallest set of points in $H$ from which every other point in $H$ is seen. We give a deterministic algorithm that, given any polygon $H$ with $h$ holes, $n$…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Khaled Elbassioni

We consider a generalization of the classical Art Gallery Problem, where instead of a light source, the guards, called $k$-transmitters, model a wireless device with a signal that can pass through at most $k$ walls. We show it is NP-hard to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Sarah Cannon , Thomas G. Fai , Justin Iwerks , Undine Leopold , Christiane Schmidt

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

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

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

The VC-dimension plays an important role for the algorithmic problem of guarding art galleries efficiently. We prove that inside a simple polygon at most $5$ points can be shattered by $L_1$-visibility polygons and give an example where 5…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-05-05 Elmar Langetepe , Simone Lehmann

A hidden guard set $ G $ is a set of point guards in polygon $ P $ that all points of the polygon are visible from some guards in $ G $ under the constraint that no two guards may see each other. In this paper, we consider the problem for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Hamid Hoorfar , Alireza Bagheri

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

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