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One of the earliest and most well known problems in computational geometry is the so-called art gallery problem. The goal is to compute the minimum possible number guards placed on the vertices of a simple polygon in such a way that they…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2009-11-25 Menelaos I. Karavelas , Elias P. Tsigaridas

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

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 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 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

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

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 study the Art Gallery Problem for face guards in polyhedral environments. The problem can be informally stated as: how many (not necessarily convex) windows should we place on the external walls of a dark building, in order to completely…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-04-22 Giovanni Viglietta

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

We study the problem of guarding the boundary of a simple polygon with a minimum number of guards such that each guard covers a contiguous portion of the boundary. First, we present a simple greedy algorithm for this problem that returns a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Ahmad Biniaz , Anil Maheshwari , Joseph S. B. Mitchell , Saeed Odak , Valentin Polishchuk , Thomas Shermer

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 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

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 investigate the Dispersive Art Gallery Problem with vertex guards and rectangular visibility ($r$-visibility) for a class of orthogonal polygons that reflect the properties of real-world floor plans: these office-like polygons consist of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Sándor P. Fekete , Kai Kobbe , Dominik Krupke , Joseph S. B. Mitchell , Christian Rieck , Christian Scheffer

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 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

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…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Arash Vaezi , Bodhayan Roy , Mohammad Ghodsi

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 present two new versions of the chromatic art gallery problem that can improve upper bound of the required colors pretty well. In our version, we employ restricted angle guards so that these modern guards can visit $\alpha$-degree of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Hamid Hoorfar

We provide a spectrum of results for the Universal Guard Problem, in which one is to obtain a small set of points ("guards") that are "universal" in their ability to guard any of a set of possible polygonal domains in the plane. We give…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Sándor P. Fekete , Qian Li , Joseph S. B. Mitchell , Christian Scheffer
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