Separating bichromatic point sets by two disjoint isothetic rectangles

Authors

Amirkabir University of Tech.

Abstract

Given a set P of red points and a set Q of blue points in the plane of total size n, we investigate the problem of finding two disjoint isothetic rectangles containing all the points of Q avoiding any points of P. Such rectangles are called two separating disjoint isothetic rectangles. We fi rst compute two separating disjoint axis-aligned rectangles in O(n log n) time. Then, we relax the axis-aligned constraint and report all combinatorially di erent two separating disjoint isothetic rectangles. To compute these rectangles, we introduce some events by rotating the coordinate system and process these events. Computing and processing all of the events are done in O(n^2 log n) time. Thus, our algorithm reports all combinatorially di erent separating rectangles in O(n^2 log n) time.

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Volume 23, Issue 3 - Serial Number 3
Transactions on Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering (D)
June 2016
Pages 1228-1238
  • Receive Date: 07 April 2015
  • Revise Date: 21 December 2024
  • Accept Date: 27 July 2017