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CCCG
2003
14 years 1 months ago
Curves of width one and the river shore problem
We consider the problem of finding the shortest curve in the plane that has unit width. This problem was first posed as the “river shore” puzzle by Ogilvy (1972) and is rela...
Timothy M. Chan, Alexander Golynski, Alejandro L&o...
COMPGEOM
2003
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
the asteroid surveying problem and other puzzles
We consider two variants of the well-known “sailor in the fog” puzzle. The first version (the “asteroid surveying” problem) is set in three dimensions and asks for the sh...
Timothy M. Chan, Alexander Golynski, Alejandro L&o...