# Covering Polygons with Rectangles

@inproceedings{Glck2017CoveringPW,
title={Covering Polygons with Rectangles},
author={Roland Gl{\"u}ck},
booktitle={TAMC},
year={2017}
}
A well-known and well-investigated family of hard optimization problems deals with nesting, i.e., the non-overlapping placing of polygons to be cut from a rectangle or the plane whilst minimizing the waste. Here we consider the in some sense inverse problem of a subsequent step in production technology: given a set of polygons in the plane and an axis-aligned rectangle (modeling a gripping device), we seek the minimum number of copies of the rectangle such that every polygon is completely…

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