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Given a set S of n points in the plane, the disjoint two-rectangle covering problem is to find a pair of disjoint rectangles such that their union contains S and the area of the larger rectangle is minimized. In this paper we consider two variants of this optimization problem: (1) the rectangles are free to rotate but must remain parallel to each other, and (2) one rectangle is axis-parallel but the other rectangle is allowed to have an arbitrary orientation. For both of the problems, we present O(n 2logn)-time algorithms using O(n) space.
This work was supported by the Korea Research Foundation Grant funded by the Korean Government (MOEHRD, Basic Research Promotion Fund) (KRF-2007-331-D00372) and by the Brain Korea 21 Project.
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Ahn, HK., Bae, S.W. (2008). Covering a Point Set by Two Disjoint Rectangles. In: Hong, SH., Nagamochi, H., Fukunaga, T. (eds) Algorithms and Computation. ISAAC 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5369. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92182-0_64
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