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Capturing points with a rotating polygon (and a 3D extension)

Computational Geometry 2020-07-21 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

We study the problem of rotating a simple polygon to contain the maximum number of elements from a given point set in the plane. We consider variations of this problem where the rotation center is a given point or lies on a line segment, a line, or a polygonal chain. We also solve an extension to 3D where we rotate a polyhedron around a given point to contain the maximum number of elements from a set of points in the space.

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@article{arxiv.1805.02570,
  title  = {Capturing points with a rotating polygon (and a 3D extension)},
  author = {Carlos Alegría-Galicia and David Orden and Leonidas Palios and Carlos Seara and Jorge Urrutia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.02570},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

25 pages, 12 figures, submitted to journal in February 2017

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