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On finding optimal convex planar shapes to cover a given convex planar shape

Covering a specific convex shape S with n copies of another specified convex shape S' (which may be different from S) is well studied - for example, https://erich-friedman.github.io/packing/index.html....
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On some optimal containers of a set of points on the 2D plane

Given a set of N points in general position on the plane, the problem is to give efficient algorithms to find the smallest semicircular region (semidisk) that contains the points the smallest ...
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How to cover n sites with the smallest number of fixed radius balls?

Given $n$ "data points" in $d$ (Euclidean) space $$\mathbf{x}_j \in \mathbb{R}^d, \text{ for } j \in \{1,\dots,n\}$$ how does one find the smallest integer $m$ such that there exists $m$ "centre ...
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Finding good high-dimensional sphere coverings in Euclidean space

Suppose we want to cover the unit sphere $\mathcal{S}^{d-1} := \{\mathbf{x} \in \mathbb{R}^d: \|\mathbf{x}\|_2 = 1\}$ with spherical caps $\mathcal{C}_{\mathbf{y}} := \{\mathbf{x} \in \mathcal{S}^{d-1}...
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Finding a minimum covering of a polygon with interesting shapes

After reading many papers about problems of minimum polygon covering, I found out that there are four different types of units that are considered for covering polygons, in increasing order of ...
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Algorithms for covering a rectilinear polygon using the same multiple rectangles

Sorry for the crossing-posting: original post is here All angles of the polygon (representing a room) are right. It may be convex or concave. Use rectangles of the same size (representing a sensor ...
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Covering a polygon with rectangles

I am trying to cover a simple concave polygon with a minimum rectangles. My rectangles can be any length, but they have maximum widths, and the polygon will never have an acute angle. I thought about ...
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Covering an arbitrary polygon with minimum number of squares

I have a problem whereby, given an arbitrary polygon with any number of points, I need to cover the whole area by a number of fixed size squares. I can easily find a set of squares which covers the ...
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