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- From: emc@doe.carleton.ca (Eli Chiprout)
- Subject: Re: A Tailor's Problem
- Message-ID: <emc.715371702@uhura>
- Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
- Organization: Dept. of Electronics, Carleton University
- References: <1992Sep1.190730.1@vmsa.technion.ac.il>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 18:21:42 GMT
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- In <1992Sep1.190730.1@vmsa.technion.ac.il> chr09tk@vmsa.technion.ac.il writes:
- >We are given a roll of cloth of a given width and unlimited length. We are also
- >given a finite set of polygons (pieces of clothing). We want to cut out the
- >polygons using a minimal length of the cloth. Devise an algorithm that will get
- >us as close as possible to the minimum (within reasonable time).
-
- Sounds like the travelling salesman again -- NP complete at best.
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- --
- Eli Chiprout
- Dept. of Electronics, Carleton University
- Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- emc@doe.carleton.ca
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