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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 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

In this paper, we study the Contiguous Art Gallery Problem, introduced by Thomas C. Shermer at the 2024 Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry, a variant of the classical art gallery problem from 1973 by Victor Klee. In the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Magnus Christian Ring Merrild , Casper Moldrup Rysgaard , Jens Kristian Refsgaard Schou , Rolf Svenning

Consider a sliding camera that travels back and forth along an orthogonal line segment $s$ inside an orthogonal polygon $P$ with $n$ vertices. The camera can see a point $p$ inside $P$ if and only if there exists a line segment containing…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-10-01 Stephane Durocher , Omrit Filtser , Robert Fraser , Ali Mehrabi , Saeed Mehrabi

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

Recently, a natural variant of the Art Gallery problem, known as the \emph{Contiguous Art Gallery problem} was proposed. Given a simple polygon $P$, the goal is to partition its boundary $\partial P$ into the smallest number of contiguous…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Sarita de Berg , Jacobus Conradi , Ivor van der Hoog , Eva Rotenberg

We study the classical Art Gallery Problem first proposed by Klee in 1973 from a mobile multi-agents perspective. Specifically, we require an optimally small number of agents (also called guards) to navigate and position themselves in the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Barath Ashok , John Augustine , Aditya Mehekare , Sridhar Ragupathi , Srikkanth Ramachandran , Suman Sourav

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

The contiguous art gallery problem was introduced at SoCG'25 in a merged paper that combined three simultaneous results, each achieving a polynomial-time algorithm for the problem. This problem is a variant of the classical art gallery…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Sarita de Berg , Jacobus Conradi , Ivor van der Hoog , Frank Staals

For a polygon P with n vertices, the vertex guarding problem asks for the minimum subset G of P's vertices such that every point in P is seen by at least one point in G. This problem is NP-complete and APX-hard. The first approximation…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-02-17 James King

$\delta$-Covering, for some covering range $\delta>0$, is a continuous facility location problem on undirected graphs where all edges have unit length. The facilities may be positioned on the vertices as well as on the interior of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Tim A. Hartmann , Tom Janßen

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

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

This paper studies a variant of the Art Gallery problem in which the ``walls" can be replaced by \emph{reflecting edges}, which allows the guards to see further and thereby see a larger portion of the gallery. Given a simple polygon $\cal…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Arash Vaezi , Bodhayan Roy , Mohammad Ghodsi

We study the problem of Covering Orthogonal Polygons with Rectangles. For polynomial-time algorithms, the best-known approximation factor is $O(\sqrt{\log n})$ when the input polygon may have holes [Kumar and Ramesh, STOC '99, SICOMP '03],…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Aniket Basu Roy

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

Terrain Guarding Problem(TGP), which is known to be NP-complete, asks to find a smallest set of guard locations on a terrain $T$ such that every point on $T$ is visible by a guard. Here, we study this problem on 1.5D orthogonal terrains…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-05-19 Yangdi Lyu , Alper Üngör

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