Partially Walking a Polygon

Franz Aurenhammer, Michael Steinkogler, Rolf Klein

Abstract: Deciding two-guard walkability of an n-sided polygon is a well-understood problem. We study the following more general question: How far can two guards reach from a given source vertex while staying mutually visible, in the (more realistic) case that the polygon is not entirely walkable? There can be Theta(n) such maximal walks, and we show how to find all of them in O(n log n) time.