Floodlight illumination of infinite wedges
The floodlight illumination problem asks whether there exists a one-to-one placement of n floodlights illuminating infinite wedges of angles α 1 , … , α n at n sites p 1 , … , p n in a plane such that a given infinite wedge W of angle θ located at point q is completely illuminated by the floodlights...
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Published in | Computational geometry : theory and applications Vol. 43; no. 1; pp. 23 - 34 |
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Main Authors | , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
Elsevier B.V
2010
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Subjects | |
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Summary: | The floodlight illumination problem asks whether there exists a one-to-one placement of
n floodlights illuminating infinite wedges of angles
α
1
,
…
,
α
n
at
n sites
p
1
,
…
,
p
n
in a plane such that a given infinite wedge
W of angle
θ located at point
q is completely illuminated by the floodlights. We prove that this problem is NP-hard, closing an open problem posed by Demaine and O'Rourke (CCCG 2001). In fact, we show that the problem is NP-complete even when
α
i
=
α
for all
1
⩽
i
⩽
n
(the
uniform case) and
θ
=
∑
i
=
1
n
α
i
(the
tight case). |
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ISSN: | 0925-7721 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.comgeo.2007.01.004 |