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LATIN
2010
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Colorful Strips
We study the following geometric hypergraph coloring problem: given a planar point set and an integer k, we wish to color the points with k colors so that any axis-aligned strip co...
Greg Aloupis, Jean Cardinal, Sébastien Coll...
ESA
2001
Springer
104views Algorithms» more  ESA 2001»
13 years 12 months ago
Smallest Color-Spanning Objects
Motivated by questions in location planning, we show for a set of colored point sites in the plane how to compute the smallest— by perimeter or area—axis-parallel rectangle and...
Manuel Abellanas, Ferran Hurtado, Christian Icking...
FUN
2010
Springer
263views Algorithms» more  FUN 2010»
14 years 8 days ago
Kaboozle Is NP-complete, Even in a Strip
Abstract. Kaboozle is a puzzle consisting of several square cards, each annotated with colored paths and dots drawn on both sides and holes drilled. The goal is to join two colored...
Tetsuo Asano, Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, ...
COMPGEOM
1999
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Folding Flat Silhouettes and Wrapping Polyhedral Packages: New Results in Computational Origami
We show a remarkable fact about folding paper: From a single rectangular sheet of paper, one can fold it into a flat origami that takes the (scaled) shape of any connected polygo...
Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, Joseph S. B. M...
SIGGRAPH
1996
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Blue Screen Matting
A classical problem of imaging--the matting problem--is separation of a non-rectangular foreground image from a (usually) rectangular background image--for example, in a film fram...
Alvy Ray Smith, James F. Blinn