Tile-Packing Tomography Is ${\MATHBB{NP}}$ -hard.

Autor: Chrobak, Marek, Dürr, Christoph, Guíñez, Flavio, Lozano, Antoni, Thang, Nguyen Kim
Zdroj: Computing & Combinatorics (9783642140303); 2010, p254-263, 10p
Abstrakt: Discrete tomography deals with reconstructing finite spatial objects from their projections. The objects we study in this paper are called tilings or tile-packings, and they consist of a number of disjoint copies of a fixed tile, where a tile is defined as a connected set of grid points. A row projection specifies how many grid points are covered by tiles in a given row; column projections are defined analogously. For a fixed tile, is it possible to reconstruct its tilings from their projections in polynomial time? It is known that the answer to this question is affirmative if the tile is a bar (its width or height is 1), while for some other types of tiles ]> -hardness results have been shown in the literature. In this paper we present a complete solution to this question by showing that the problem remains ]> -hard for all tiles other than bars. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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