art gallery problem

English

Etymology

Originating from a real-world problem of guarding an art gallery with the minimum number of guards who can observe together the whole gallery.

Noun

art gallery problem (plural art gallery problems)

1. A visibility problem in computational geometry, dealing with whether a number of points in a polygon can collectively "see" (by line segments akin to a person's line of sight) the whole interior of the polygon.

   Synonym: museum problem

Further reading

• art gallery problem on Wikipedia.Wikipedia