Locked and unlocked polygonal chains in three dimensions

DOI10.1007/S00454-001-0038-7MaRDI QIDQ5953071zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Therese Biedl, Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, Sylvain Lazard, Anna Lubiw, Joseph O'Rourke, Mark H. Overmars, S. Robbins, Ileana Streinu, Godfried Toussaint, Sue Whitesides

Publication date 22 July 2002

Published in Discrete \& Computational Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00454-001-0038-7

zbMATH Keywords

polygonal chains

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computer graphics; computational geometry (digital and algorithmic aspects) (68U05)

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