How to cover a point set with a V-shape of minimum width

  • Authors:
  • Boris Aronov;Muriel Dulieu

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Brooklyn, NY;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Brooklyn, NY

  • Venue:
  • WADS'11 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Algorithms and data structures
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

A balanced V-shape is a polygonal region in the plane contained in the union of two crossing equal-width strips. It is delimited by two pairs of parallel rays that emanate from two points x, y, are contained in the strip boundaries, and are mirror-symmetric with respect to the line xy. The width of a balanced V-shape is the width of the strips. We first present an O(n2 log n) time algorithm to compute, given a set of n points P, a minimum-width balanced V-shape covering P. We then describe a PTAS for computing a (1+ε)-approximation of this V-shape in time O((n/ε) log n + (n/ε3/2) log2(1/ε)).