Skip to main content

All Questions

Filter by
Sorted by
Tagged with
1 vote
1 answer
111 views

Optimal "Generalization" of Polylines

This question is inspired by a lossy compression technique for polylines, namely to identify a subset of the points of polyline $\mathcal{P}$, whose removal yields a polyline $\mathcal{Q}$ within a ...
Manfred Weis's user avatar
  • 13.2k
14 votes
0 answers
4k views

Minimum tiling of a rectangle by squares

Given the $n\times m$ rectangle, I want to compute the minimum number of integer-sided squares needed to tile it (possibly of different sizes). Is there an efficient way to calculate this?
didest's user avatar
  • 1,015