This thesis discusses the problem of decomposing rectilinear regions, with or without holes, into a minimum number of rectangles. There are two different types of decomposition considered here : decomposing a figure into non-overlapping parts, called partitioning, and decomposing a figure into possibly overlapping parts, called covering. A method is outlined and proved for solving the above two problems, and algorithms for the solutions of these problems are presented. The partitioning problem can be solved in time O(n⁵ ²), where n is the number of vertices of the figure, whereas the covering problem is exponential in its time complexity. / M.S.
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VTETD/oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/90962 |
Date | January 1987 |
Creators | Chadha, Ritu |
Contributors | Computer Science |
Publisher | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
Source Sets | Virginia Tech Theses and Dissertation |
Language | en_US |
Detected Language | English |
Type | Thesis, Text |
Format | ix, 116 leaves, application/pdf, application/pdf |
Rights | In Copyright, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
Relation | OCLC# 17604740 |
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