Optimally Solving the Art Gallery Problem in Practice
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The Art Gallery Problem (AGP) is a well studied NPhard problem in Computational Geometry. It consists of finding the minimum number of guards that are sufficient to visually cover a gallery, represented by a polygon. In our work, we designed and implemented a method that is capable of solving complex instances with up to 5000 vertices within only a few minutes. Also, we provide a complete version of our code and of our benchmark for download, which is unprecedented in the literature.
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