Characterizing and covering some subclasses of orthogonal polygons

  • Authors:
  • Ana Mafalda Martins;António Leslie Bajuelos

  • Affiliations:
  • Escola Superior de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal;Dept. of Mathematics & CEOC – Center for Research in Optimization and Control, University of Aveiro, Portugal

  • Venue:
  • ICCS'06 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Computational Science - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

A grid n-ogon is a n-vertex orthogonal polygon that may be placed in a $\frac{n}{2}\times \frac{n}{2}$ unit square grid and that does not have collinear edges. Given a grid n-ogon P, let |Π(P)| be the number of rectangles that results when we partition P by extending the edges incident to reflex vertices towards its interior. P is called Fat if |Π(P)| is maximal for all grid n-ogons; P is called Thin if |Π(P)| is minimal for all grid n-ogons. Thins with area 2r+1 are called Min-Area. We will show that $\lceil\frac{n}{6}\rceil$ vertex guards are necessary to guard a Min-Area grid n-ogon and present some problems related to Thins.