Title :
Cutting a cornered convex polygon out of a circle
Author :
Ahmed, S.I. ; Islam, Ahmed Ariful ; Hasan, Masud
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Bangladesh Univ. of Eng. & Technol., Dhaka
Abstract :
The problem of cutting a convex polygon P out of a piece of paper Q with minimum total cutting length is a well studied problem in computational geometry. Researchers studied several variations of the problem, such as P and Q are convex or non-convex polygons and the cuts are line cuts or rays cuts. In this paper we consider yet another variation of the problem where Q is a circle and P is convex polygon such that P is bounded by a half circle of Q and all the cuts are line cuts. We give a simple linear time O(log n)-approximation algorithm for this problem where n is the number of vertices of P.
Keywords :
approximation theory; computational geometry; approximation algorithm; computational geometry; cornered convex polygon; minimum total cutting length; Approximation algorithms; Computational geometry; Computer science; Costs; Information technology; Paper technology; Polynomials; Algorithm; circle; computational geometry; line cut; polygon cutting;
Conference_Titel :
Computer and Information Technology, 2008. ICCIT 2008. 11th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Khulna
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2135-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2136-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICCITECHN.2008.4802988