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Given a simple polygon $\mathcal{P}$ on $n$ vertices, two points $x,y$ in $\mathcal{P}$ are said to be visible to each other if the line segment between $x$ and $y$ is contained in $\mathcal{P}$. The Point Guard Art Gallery problem asks for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Édouard Bonnet , 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

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

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

We present approximation algorithms with O(n^3) processing time for the minimum vertex and edge guard problems in simple polygons. It is improved from previous O(n^4) time algorithms of Ghosh. For simple polygon, there are O(n^3) visibility…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Dae-Sung Jang , Sun-Il Kwon

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

We provide an O(log log OPT)-approximation algorithm for the problem of guarding a simple polygon with guards on the perimeter. We first design a polynomial-time algorithm for building epsilon-nets of size O(1/epsilon log log 1/epsilon) for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-01-26 James King , David Kirkpatrick

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

A 1.5D imprecise terrain is an $x$-monotone polyline with fixed $x$-coordinates, the $y$-coordinate of each vertex is not fixed but is constrained to be in a given vertical interval. A 2.5D imprecise terrain is a triangulation with fixed…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Bradley McCoy , Binhai Zhu

We consider the watchman route problem for multiple watchmen in staircase polygons, which are rectilinear $x$- and $y$-monotone polygons. For two watchmen, we propose an algorithm to find an optimal solution that takes quadratic time,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Anna Brötzner , Bengt J. Nilsson , Christiane Schmidt

We will consider some extensions of the polygonal art gallery problem. In a recent paper Morrison has shown the smallest (9 sides) example of an art gallery that cannot be observed by guards placed in every third corner. Author also…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Eryk Lipka

We consider drawings of graphs in the plane in which vertices are assigned distinct points in the plane and edges are drawn as simple curves connecting the vertices and such that the edges intersect only at their common endpoints. There is…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Salman Parsa , Tim Ophelders

We study the problem of planning paths for a team of robots for visually monitoring an environment. Our work is motivated by surveillance and persistent monitoring applications. We are given a set of target points in a polygonal environment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Pratap Tokekar , Ashish Kumar Budhiraja , Vijay Kumar

We study terrain visibility graphs, a well-known graph class closely related to polygon visibility graphs in computational geometry, for which a precise graph-theoretical characterization is still unknown. Over the last decade, terrain…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Vincent Froese , Malte Renken

We resolve the complexity of the point-boundary variant of the art gallery problem, showing that it is $\exists\mathbb{R}$-complete, meaning that it is equivalent under polynomial time reductions to deciding whether a system of polynomial…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Jack Stade

Let $P$ be an orthogonal polygon. Consider a sliding camera that travels back and forth along an orthogonal line segment $s\in P$ as its \emph{trajectory}. The camera can see a point $p\in P$ if there exists a point $q\in s$ such that $pq$…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-03-12 Stephane Durocher , Saeed Mehrabi

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

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

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

A polygonal art gallery can be observed by guards placed at one third of its corners. However, the strategy of placing guards at every third corner does not work for all art galleries. In this note, we provide an example of a nine-sided art…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-06 Ralph Morrison