An implementation of a Heuristic for the Orthogonal Art Gallery Problem

Document Type

Project

Authors

George Antoniou, Grand Valley State University

Advisors

Dr. Christian Trefftz, trefftzc@gvsu.edu

Embargo Period

8-17-2010

Abstract

The Art Gallery Problem is a classical problem in Computational Geometry:

Given an Art Gallery, what is the minimum number of guards and their locations so that they can watch the entire Gallery? The problem can be restated in terms of illumination and lights.

An interesting version of the original problem arises when two additional condition are imposed:

1. All the walls of the Art Gallery form square angles (Orthogonal polygon)

2. The guards can be placed only on the corners of the Gallery

This particular version of the problem has been shown to be NP-hard.

ScholarWorks Citation

Antoniou, George, "An implementation of a Heuristic for the Orthogonal Art Gallery Problem" (2005). Technical Library. 94.
https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cistechlib/94