External polygon containment problems

Micha Sharir*, Sivan Toledo

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Abstract

Given a convex polygonal object P with k vertices and an environment consisting of polygonal obstacles with a total of n corners, we seek a placement for the largest copy of P that does not intersect any of the obstacles, allowing translation, rotation and scaling. We employ the parametric search technique of Megiddo (1983), and the fixed size polygon placement algorithms developed by Leven and Sharir (1987), to obtain an algorithm that runs in time O(k26(kn)log3(kn)loglog(kn)). We also present several other efficient algorithms for restricted variants of the extremal polygon containment problem, using the same ideas. These variants include: placement of the largest homothetic copies of one or two convex polygons in another convex polygon and placement of the largest similar copy of a triangle in a convex polygon.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)99-118
Number of pages20
JournalComputational Geometry: Theory and Applications
Volume4
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 1994

Funding

FundersFunder number
G.I.F.-the German Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development
Israeli Academy of Sciences
U.S.-Israeli Binational Science Foundation
National Science FoundationCCR-89-01484
Office of Naval ResearchNOO014-90-J-1284

    Keywords

    • Motion planning
    • Parametric searching
    • Polygon containment

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