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...
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...
Abstract We present an algorithm for computing families of geodesic curves over an open mesh patch to partition the patch into strip-like segments. Specifically, the segments can ...