Let F be a family of n convex sets in the plane. A set of light sources S illuminates F if every point on the boundary of each element of F is visible from at least one element in S. We prove that if F is a family of n line segments, n >/11, then [-2n/3 7 light sources are always sufficient to illum
On illumination in the plane by line segments
โ Scribed by A. Bezdek; K. Bezdek; T. Bisztriczky
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 504 KB
- Volume
- 41
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0046-5755
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โฆ Synopsis
We show that S c E 2 contains a line segment illuminator if any two points of S are illuminated by a line segment of S in a given direction or if any eight points of S are illuminated by a connected set of line segments of S and a certain connectedness condition is fulfilled. We also show that if any three points of S ~ E 2 are illuminated by a translate in S of a line segment T, then S contains a line segment illuminator, which is also a translate of T. As a further result; we have that if any three points of a polygon P are illuminated by some line segment of P then the so-called link center of P illuminates P. Finally, we prove that if any three points of an osymmetric polygon P are illuminated by a line segment of P through the point 0 then P contains an o-symmetric convex illuminator which is either a line segment or a parallelogram.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
Rend], F. and G. Woeginger, Reconstructing sets of orthogonal line segments in the plane, Discrete Mathematics 119 (1993) 1677174. We show that reconstructing a set of n orthogonal line segments in the plane from the set of their vertices can be done in O(n log n) time, if the segments are allowed