Counting closed billiard paths
Given a pool table enclosing a set of axis-aligned rectangles, with a total of n edges, this paper studies $\it{closed~billiard~paths}$. A closed billiard path is formed by following the ball shooting from a starting point into some direction, such that it doesn’t touch any corner of a rectangle, do...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Amirkabir University of Technology
2020-09-01
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Series: | AUT Journal of Mathematics and Computing |
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Online Access: | https://ajmc.aut.ac.ir/article_3821_7338945819e8a369d3c32dde65cdfafb.pdf |