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Simple and efficient floor-planning. (English) Zbl 1173.68768
Summary: We show a new algorithm for computing in $$O(n)$$ time a floor-plan of a given plane near-triangulation. We use modules which are the union of two rectangles and are T-, L- or I-shaped. Our algorithm has the following advantages: the number of T-shaped modules is at most $$\frac{1}{2}(n-2)$$, all T-shaped modules are uniformly directed, the size of the picture is at most $$n\times n - 1$$. A very important asset of our algorithm is its extraordinary simplicity.

##### MSC:
 68U05 Computer graphics; computational geometry (digital and algorithmic aspects) 68W05 Nonnumerical algorithms
##### Keywords:
floor-plan; near-triangulation; algorithms
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