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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

Let $P$ be a set of $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^3$ in general position, and let $RCH(P)$ be the rectilinear convex hull of $P$. In this paper we obtain an optimal $O(n\log n)$-time and $O(n)$-space algorithm to compute $RCH(P)$. We also…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Pablo Pérez-Lantero , Carlos Seara , Jorge Urrutia

The problem of finding the largest empty axis-parallel box amidst a point configuration is a classical problem in computational geometry. It is known that the volume of the largest empty box is of asymptotic order $1/n$ for $n\to\infty$ and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Christoph Aistleitner , Aicke Hinrichs , Daniel Rudolf

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

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

This study presents a novel algorithm for identifying the set of extreme points that constitute the exact convex hull of a point set in high-dimensional Euclidean space. The proposed method iteratively solves a sequence of dynamically…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Qianwei Zhuang

We study several variations of line segment covering problem with axis-parallel unit squares in $I\!\!R^2$. A set $S$ of $n$ line segments is given. The objective is to find the minimum number of axis-parallel unit squares which cover at…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Ankush Acharyya , Subhas C. Nandy , Supantha Pandit , Sasanka Roy

In the Maximum Weight Independent Set of Rectangles (MWISR) problem we are given a set of n axis-parallel rectangles in the 2D-plane, and the goal is to select a maximum weight subset of pairwise non-overlapping rectangles. Due to many…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-07-09 Anna Adamaszek , Andreas Wiese

We consider the problem of finding minimum-link rectilinear paths in rectilinear polygonal domains in the plane. A path or a polygon is rectilinear if all its edges are axis-parallel. Given a set $\mathcal{P}$ of $h$ pairwise-disjoint…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-04-28 Joseph S. B. Mitchell , Valentin Polishchuk , Mikko Sysikaski , Haitao Wang

Let $k \geq 2$ be a constant. Given any $k$ convex polygons in the plane with a total of $n$ vertices, we present an $O(n\log^{2k-3}n)$ time algorithm that finds a translation of each of the polygons such that the area of intersection of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Hyuk Jun Kweon , Honglin Zhu

A convex polygon Q is circumscribed about a convex polygon P if every vertex of P lies on at least one side of Q. We present an algorithm for finding a maximum area convex polygon circumscribed about any given convex n-gon in O(n^3) time.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-25 Markus Ausserhofer , Susanna Dann , Zsolt Lángi , Géza Tóth

Geometrical objects with integral side lengths have fascinated mathematicians through the ages. We call a set $P=\{p_1,...,p_n\}\subset\mathbb{Z}^2$ a maximal integral point set over $\mathbb{Z}^2$ if all pairwise distances are integral and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-04-09 Andrey Radoslavov Antonov , Sascha Kurz

We present several new results on one of the most extensively studied topics in computational geometry, orthogonal range searching. All our results are in the standard word RAM model for points in rank space: ** We present two data…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-03-30 Timothy M. Chan , Kasper Green Larsen , Mihai Patrascu

We say that a polygon inscribed in the circle is asymmetric if it contains no two antipodal points being the endpoints of a diameter. Given $n$ diameters of a circle and a positive integer $k<n$, this paper addresses the problem of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-02-03 L. Barba , L. E. Caraballo , J. M. Díaz-Báñez , R. Fabila-Monroy , E. Pérez-Castillo

We study new types of geometric query problems defined as follows: given a geometric set $P$, preprocess it such that given a query point $q$, the location of the largest circle that does not contain any member of $P$, but contains $q$ can…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-12-17 John Augustine , Sandip Das , Anil Maheshwari , Subhas Nandy , Sasanka Roy , Swami Sarvattomananda

We consider the problem of reporting convex hull points in an orthogonal range query in two dimensions. Formally, let $P$ be a set of $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^{2}$. A point lies on the convex hull of a point set $S$ if it lies on the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-07-24 Jatin Agarwal , Nadeem Moidu , Kishore Kothapalli , Kannan Srinathan

We consider the problem of computing 2-center in maximal outerplanar graph. In this problem, we want to find an optimal solution where two centers cover all the vertices with the smallest radius. We provide the following result. We can…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-09 Hsiu-Fu Yeh

In the planar range skyline reporting problem, we store a set P of n 2D points in a structure such that, given a query rectangle Q = [a_1, a_2] x [b_1, b_2], the maxima (a.k.a. skyline) of P \cap Q can be reported efficiently. The query is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-06-13 Casper Kejlberg-Rasmussen , Yufei Tao , Konstantinos Tsakalidis , Kostas Tsichlas , Jeonghun Yoon

We propose a technique called Rotate-and-Kill for solving the polygon inclusion and circumscribing problems. By applying this technique, we obtain $O(n)$ time algorithms for computing (1) the maximum area triangle in a given $n$-sided…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Kai Jin , Taikun Zhu , Ruixi Luo

Let $B$ be a set of $n$ axis-parallel boxes in $\mathbb{R}^d$ such that each box has a corner at the origin and the other corner in the positive quadrant of $\mathbb{R}^d$, and let $k$ be a positive integer. We study the problem of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Karl Bringmann , Sergio Cabello , Michael T. M. Emmerich