Complexity of Separating Polygons With Simultaneous Translations

This page contains acompanying pictures and animations for the paper:

F. Schwarzer and A. Schweikard. On the complexity of one-shot translational separability. Information Processing Letters, 83:187-194, June 2002.

Construction Principles (click on images for animations)

Separator triangle Elevator hooks Transmission

Frame Construction and Details (click inside dashed rectangles)

Motion Details

Traversal Through Critical Configuration (Feasible Case)

Further Examples

Fabian Schwarzer
Last modified: Wed Jul 16 18:32:30 MEST 2003