8 papers
Overlapping Unfoldings of Cones and Convex Polyhedra
MIT CompGeom Group, Hugo A. Akitaya, Erik D. Demaine +4
Research on Dürer's problem focuses on edge unfoldings of convex polyhedra that avoid overlap. We invert the goal and find unfoldings that overlap at some point to any given thick…
ASP-Completeness of Hamiltonicity in Grid Graphs, with Applications to Loop Puzzles
MIT Hardness Group, Josh Brunner, Lily Chung +4
We prove that Hamiltonicity in maximum-degree-3 grid graphs (directed or undirected) is ASP-complete, i.e., it has a parsimonious reduction from every NP search problem (including…
Finding Closed Quasigeodesics on Convex Polyhedra
Erik D. Demaine, Adam C. Hesterberg, Jason S. Ku
A closed quasigeodesic is a closed curve on the surface of a polyhedron with at most of surface on both sides at all points; such curves can be locally unfolded straigh…
Escaping a Polygon
Zachary Abel, Hugo Akitaya, Erik D. Demaine +4
Suppose an escaping player ("human") moves continuously at maximum speed in the interior of a region, while a pursuing player ("zombie") moves continuously at maximum speed …
Super Guarding and Dark Rays in Art Galleries
MIT CompGeom Group, Hugo A. Akitaya, Erik D. Demaine +5
We explore an Art Gallery variant where each point of a polygon must be seen by k guards, and guards cannot see through other guards. Surprisingly, even covering convex polygons un…
Deltahedral Domes over Equiangular Polygons
MIT CompGeom Group, Hugo A. Akitaya, Erik D. Demaine +6
A polyiamond is a polygon composed of unit equilateral triangles, and a generalized deltahedron is a convex polyhedron whose every face is a convex polyiamond. We study a variant w…