Probing Polygons Minimally Is Hard

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  • Patrice Belleville
  • Thomas C. Shermer
چکیده

Belleville, P. and T.C. Shermer, Probing polygons minimally is hard, Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications 2 (1993) 255-265. Let r be a set of convex unimodal polygons in fixed position and orientation. We prove that the problem of determining whether k finger probes are sufficient to distinguish among the polygons in f is NP-complete for two types of finger probes. This implies that the same results hold for most interesting classes of polygons on which finger probes can be used.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Comput. Geom.

دوره 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1992