Timeline for Pigeonholing Polygons: Can two rigid regions fit in twice the space needed?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:58 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| May 17, 2015 at 15:58 | comment | added | The Masked Avenger | @ZsbánAmbrus , yes, all of the regions discussed are the same shape and orientation. If rotation or reflection were allowed, I could loosely pack two very obtuse triangles in a larger triangle. | |
| May 17, 2015 at 15:54 | vote | accept | The Masked Avenger | ||
| May 17, 2015 at 9:31 | comment | added | Zsbán Ambrus | Wait, are you asking about the case where the container region is similar to the bodies? If not, what else would stop me from taking a very thin but long strip as the container, so that not even one body fits. | |
| May 17, 2015 at 3:07 | answer | added | Yoav Kallus | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 17, 2015 at 1:22 | comment | added | The Masked Avenger | It should be the case that the enclosing region C has the same orientation as the packed regions. There are pentagons P where a packing exists if the outer pentagon is rotated with respect to the inner pentagons. | |
| May 17, 2015 at 0:46 | history | edited | The Masked Avenger | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 17, 2015 at 0:40 | history | asked | The Masked Avenger | CC BY-SA 3.0 |