Cutting a Country for Smallest Square Fit

  • Authors:
  • Marc J. van Kreveld;Bettina Speckmann

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ISAAC '02 Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We study the problem of cutting a simple polygon with n vertices into two pieces such that - if we reposition one piece disjoint of the other, without rotation - they have the minimum possible bounding square. If we cut with a single horizontal or vertical segment, then we can compute an optimal solution for a convex polygon with n vertices in O(n) time. For simple polygons we give an O(n4 驴(n) log n) time algorithm.