Approximate Guarding of Monotone and Rectilinear Polygons

Approximate Guarding of Monotone and Re tilinear Polygons

Generalized Guarding and Partitioning for Rectilinear Polygons

Optimal guarding of polygons and monotone chains

In this paper we study several problems concerning the guarding of a polygon or a x-monotone polygonal chain P with n vertices from a set of points lying on it. Our results are: (1) An O(n logn) time sequential algorithm for computing the shortest guarding boundary chain of a polygon P. (2) An O(n logn) time sequential algorithm for computing the smallest set of consecutive edges guarding a pol...

Altitude Terrain Guarding and Guarding Uni-Monotone Polygons

We show that the problem of guarding an x-monotone terrain from an altitude line and the problem of guarding a uni-monotone polygon are equivalent. We present a polynomial time algorithm for both problems, and show that the cardinality of a minimum guard set and the cardinality of a maximum witness set coincide. Thus, uni-monotone polygons are perfect; this result also extends to monotone mount...

The Complexity of Guarding Monotone Polygons

A polygon P is x-monotone if any line orthogonal to the x-axis has a simply connected intersection with P . A set G of points inside P or on the boundary of P is said to guard the polygon if every point inside P or on the boundary of P is seen by a point in G. An interior guard can lie anywhere inside or on the boundary of the polygon. Using a reduction fromMonotone 3SAT, we prove that interior...