Recognition and reconstruction of visibility graphs using a genetic algorithm

  • Authors:
  • Marshall S. Veach

  • Affiliations:
  • Stanford University, Stanford, California

  • Venue:
  • GECCO '96 Proceedings of the 1st annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

Recognizing and reconstructing simple polygons from their combinatorial visibility graphs remains one of the open problems in computational geometry. Although much work has been completed on restricted versions of the problem, very little is known about the nature of the general solution. In this paper, I consider the use of a genetic algorithm (GA) as a means of solving the general form of the visibility graph reconstruction problem. The concept of a blocking vertex visibility graph is introduced; and a GA is described which makes use of this structure to construct polygons satisfying certain visibility constraints.