ISSN:
1432-0444
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Computer Science
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Mathematics
Notes:
Abstract. We show that the region lit by a point light source inside a simple n -gon after at most k reflections off the boundary has combinatorial complexity O(n 2k ) , for any k≥ 1 . A lower bound of Ω ((n/k-Θ(1)) 2k ) is also established which matches the upper bound for any fixed k . A simple near-optimal algorithm for computing the illuminated region is presented, which runs in O(n 2k log n) time and O(n 2k ) space for k〉1 , and in O(n 2 log 2 n) time and O(n 2 ) space for k=1 .
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/PL00009378