On reconfiguring tree linkages: Trees can lock

نویسندگان

  • Therese C. Biedl
  • Erik D. Demaine
  • Martin L. Demaine
  • Sylvain Lazard
  • Anna Lubiw
  • Joseph O'Rourke
  • Steve Robbins
  • Ileana Streinu
  • Godfried T. Toussaint
  • Sue Whitesides
چکیده

It has recently been shown that any simple (i.e. nonintersecting) polygonal chain in the plane can be reconfigured to lie on a straight line, and any simple polygon can be reconfigured to be convex. This result cannot be extended to tree linkages: we show that there are trees with two simple configurations that are not connected by a motion that preserves simplicity throughout the motion. Indeed, we prove that an N-link tree can have 2 equivalence classes of configurations.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • CoRR

دوره cs.CG/9910024  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1998