An approximation algorithm for cutting out convex polygons

  • Authors:
  • Adrian Dumitrescu

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI

  • Venue:
  • SODA '03 Proceedings of the fourteenth annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

We provide an O(log n)-approximation algorithm for the following problem. Given a convex n-gon P, drawn on a convex piece of paper, cut P out of the piece of paper in the cheapest possible way. No approximation algorithm was known for this problem posed in 1985.