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Engineering Art Galleries

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The Art Gallery Problem (AGP) is one of the most well-known problems in Computational Geometry (CG), with a rich history in the study of algorithms, complexity, and variants. Recently there has been a surge in experimental work on the problem. In this survey, we describe this work, show the chronology of developments, and compare current algorithms, including two unpublished versions, in an exhaustive experiment. Furthermore, we show what core algorithmic ingredients have led to recent successes.

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Notes

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    This is an an \(O((n+m)\log n)\) sweep line algorithm, where n is the number of polygon vertices and m the number of query points.

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    In the context of fading [43] circular arcs may also be required.

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    Other options are, for instance, leda::rational [46] or CORE::BigRat [39], but, compared to Gmpq, both imply some overhead and are only recommended in case the usage of the more complex number types of these libraries is required.

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    This can be achieved by the instantiation of the Cartesian kernel with \(\texttt {CGAL::Lazy\_exact\_nt{<}CGAL::Gmpq{>}}\).

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Acknowledgments

Many people have contributed to the developments described in this paper. In particular, the authors would like to thank Tobias Baumgartner, Marcelo C. Couto, Sándor P. Fekete, Winfried Hellmann, Mahdi Moeini, Eli Packer, and Christiane Schmidt.

Stephan Friedrichs was affiliated with TU Braunschweig, IBR during most of the research.

This work was partially supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under contract number KR 3133/1-1 (Kunst!), by Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (Fapesp, #2007/52015-0, #2012/18384-7), Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq, grants #311140/2014-9, #477692/2012-5 and #302804/2010-2), and Faepex/Unicamp. Google Inc. supported the development of the Computational Geometry Algorithms Library [12] (CGAL) visibility package through the 2013 Google Summer of Code.

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  2. Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Stephan Friedrichs

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de Rezende, P.J., de Souza, C.C., Friedrichs, S., Hemmer, M., Kröller, A., Tozoni, D.C. (2016). Engineering Art Galleries. In: Kliemann, L., Sanders, P. (eds) Algorithm Engineering. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9220. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49487-6_12

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