The Complexity of Diffuse Reflections in a Simple Polygon

نویسندگان

  • Boris Aronov
  • Alan R. Davis
  • John Iacono
  • Albert Siu Cheong Yu
چکیده

The complexity of the visibility region formed by a point light source after k diffuse reflections in a simple n-sided polygon is O(n), which is the first result polynomial in n, with no dependence on k. This bound is an exponential improvement over the previous bound of O(n2d(k+1)/2e+1) due to Prasad et al. [8].

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تاریخ انتشار 2006