Exact and approximation algorithms for computing optimal fat decompositions

  • Authors:
  • Mirela Damian

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Villanova University, Villanova, PA

  • Venue:
  • Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications - Special issue on the 14th Canadian conference on computational geometry — CCCG02
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

The minimum α-fat decomposition problem is the problem of decomposing a simple polygon into fewest subpolygons, each with aspect ratio at most α, for a given α 0. The main result in the paper is a polynomial time algorithm that solves the version of this problem that disallows Steiner points. The algorithm returns an optimal α-fat decomposition, if there is one, and reports failure otherwise. We also devise a faster approximation algorithm that produces, for any ε 0, an (α + ε)-fat decomposition with as few polygons as an optimal α-fat decomposition.