K-vertex guarding simple polygons

  • Authors:
  • Ihsan Salleh

  • Affiliations:
  • The Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA

  • Venue:
  • Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

A polygon P is called k-vertex guardable if there is a subset G of the vertices of P such that each point in P is seen by at least k vertices in G. For the main results of this paper, it is shown that the following number of vertex guards is sufficient and sometimes necessary to k-vertex guard any simple n-gon P without holes: @?2n/3@? are needed for k=2 if P is any n-gon and @?3n/4@? are needed for k=3 if P is any convexly quadrilateralizable n-gon. The proofs for both of the results yield algorithms with O(n^2) runtimes.