Packing Two Disks into a Polygonal Environment

  • Authors:
  • Prosenjit Bose;Pat Morin;Antoine Vigneron

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • COCOON '01 Proceedings of the 7th Annual International Conference on Computing and Combinatorics
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

We consider the following problem. Given a polygon P, possibly with holes, and having n vertices, compute a pair of equal radius disks that do not intersect each other, are contained in P, and whose radius is maximized. Our main result is a simple randomized algorithm whose expected running time, on worst case input, is O(n log n). This is optimal in the algebraic decision tree model of computation.