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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 study the problem of colouring the vertices of a polygon, such that every viewer in it can see a unique colour. The goal is to minimise the number of colours used. This is also known as the conflict-free chromatic guarding problem with…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Onur Çağırıcı , Subir Kumar Ghosh , Petr Hliněný , Bodhayan Roy

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

We address recently proposed chromatic versions of the classic Art Gallery Problem. Assume a simple polygon $P$ is guarded by a finite set of point guards and each guard is assigned one of $t$ colors. Such a chromatic guarding is said to be…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-12-15 Frank Hoffmann , Klaus Kriegel , Max Willert

We introduce the notion of a normal gallery, a gallery in which any configuration of guards that visually covers the walls covers the entire gallery. We show that any star gallery is normal and any gallery with at most two reflex corners is…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-02-29 Zoran Sunic

We study the Cooperative Guarding problem for polygons with holes in a mobile multi-agents setting. Given a set of agents, initially deployed at a point in a polygon with $n$ vertices and $h$ holes, we require the agents to collaboratively…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-01 John Augustine , Srikkanth Ramachandran

Given an $x$-monotone polygonal chain $T$ with $n$ vertices, and an integer $k$, we consider the problem of finding the lowest horizontal line $L$ lying above $T$ with $k$ point guards lying on $L$, so that every point on the chain is…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Byeonguk Kang , Hwi Kim , Hee-Kap Ahn

We consider guarding classes of simple polygons using mobile guards (polygon edges and diagonals) under the constraint that no two guards may see each other. In contrast to most other art gallery problems, existence is the primary question:…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-06-11 Sarah Cannon , Diane L. Souvaine , Andrew Winslow

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

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

The art gallery problem enquires about the least number of guards sufficient to ensure that an art gallery, represented by a simple polygon $P$, is fully guarded. Most standard versions of this problem are known to be NP-hard. In 1987,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Pritam Bhattacharya , Subir Kumar Ghosh , Sudebkumar Pal

We consider the problem of monitoring an art gallery modeled as a polygon, the edges of which are arcs of curves, with edge or mobile guards. Our focus is on piecewise-convex polygons, i.e., polygons that are locally convex, except possibly…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-03-01 Menelaos I. Karavelas

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 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 devise an algorithm for surveying a dynamic orthogonal polygonal domain by placing one guard at each vertex in a subset of its vertices, i.e., whenever an orthogonal polygonal domain {\cal P'} is modified to result in another orthogonal…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Debangshu Banerjee , R. Inkulu

Given a set $P$ of $n$ points in the plane, the order-$k$ Gabriel graph on $P$, denoted by $k$-$GG$, has an edge between two points $p$ and $q$ if and only if the closed disk with diameter $pq$ contains at most $k$ points of $P$, excluding…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-10-03 Ahmad Biniaz , Anil Maheshwari , Michiel Smid

We present an optimal, linear-time algorithm for the following version of terrain guarding: given a 1.5D terrain and a horizontal line, place the minimum number of guards on the line to see all of the terrain. We prove that the cardinality…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Ovidiu Daescu , Stephan Friedrichs , Hemant Malik , Valentin Polishchuk , Christiane Schmidt

We investigate a variation of the art gallery problem in which a team of mobile guards tries to track an unpredictable intruder in a simply-connected polygonal environment. In this work, we use the deployment strategy for diagonal guards…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-16 Guillermo J. Laguna , Rui Zou , Sourabh Bhattacharya

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 show the following problems are in $\textsf{P}$: 1. The contiguous art gallery problem -- a variation of the art gallery problem where each guard can protect a contiguous interval along the boundary of a simple polygon. This was posed at…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Eliot W. Robson , Jack Spalding-Jamieson , Da Wei Zheng