International Journal of Computational Geometry, Vol. 3, No.1 (1993), pp. 27-38.

James Abello and Ömer Egecioglu

Visibility Graphs of Staircase Polygons with Uniform Step Length

Abstract. Let $\Gamma_n$ denote the collection of visibility graphs of staircase polygons (orthogonal convex fans) which consist of n-1 horizontal steps of arbitrary lengths. We show that for n > 6 there are graphs in $\Gamma_n$ which cannot be realized as the visibility graphs of staircase polygons with uniform step length.

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