Computational Geometry:
Solving Hard Optimization Problems

Geometric Optimization Challenges

We host optimization challenges for computational geometry problems. The challenges are part of CG Week.

News

01/18/2024
10:51 a.m.

With only a few days left, participants are reminded of the approaching submission deadline. If you face any issues during submission, please email us with your team's name and a hash of your solution files. Once you have the files ready, follow up with a link for us to access them.

09/29/2023
8:05 p.m.

I am pleased to announce that the instances for our competitions are now available for download. Furthermore, we have successfully implemented the solution upload functionality. However, please note that the verification process for submitted solutions will commence in a few weeks' time.

08/16/2023
5:14 p.m.

Presenting our latest example instances! Your feedback was invaluable, and we've responded accordingly. The example file has been revamped—say goodbye to pesky tiny objects in instances. Plus, a new generator has been included! And that's not all – we've also introduced visualizations for the new instances.


Past Competitions

Ended on: Jan. 22, 2024, 11:59 p.m. (AoE)
CG:SHOP 2024
Organized by: Sándor Fekete , Phillip Keldenich , Dominik Krupke , Stefan Schirra

The Sixth Geometric Optimization Challenge is part of CG Week 2024.

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Ended on: Jan. 27, 2023, 11:59 p.m. (AoE)
CG:SHOP 2023
Organized by: Sándor Fekete , Phillip Keldenich , Dominik Krupke , Stefan Schirra

The Fifth Geometric Optimization Challenge is part of CG Week 2023.

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Ended on: Jan. 19, 2022, 11:59 p.m. (AoE)
CG:SHOP 2022
Organized by: Sándor Fekete , Phillip Keldenich , Dominik Krupke , Stefan Schirra

The Fourth Geometric Optimization Challenge is part of CG Week in Berlin, Germany, June 6-10, 2022. The task is to solve the Minimum Partition into Plane Subgraphs Problem.

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Ended on: Feb. 15, 2021, 11:59 p.m. (AoE)
CG:SHOP 2021
Organized by: Sándor Fekete , Phillip Keldenich , Dominik Krupke , Joseph S. B. Mitchell

Third CG:SHOP competition as part of CG Week 2021. The problem is to compute a set of collision-free parallel motions for unit-square robots on a pixel grid.

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Ended on: Feb. 14, 2020, 11:59 a.m. (AoE)
CG:SHOP 2020
Organized by: Erik Demaine , Sándor Fekete , Phillip Keldenich , Dominik Krupke , Joseph S. B. Mitchell

The Second Geometric Optimization Challenge is part of CG Week in Zurich, Switzerland, June 22-26, 2020. The task is to solve the Minimum Convex Partition Problem, which asks for a set of edges connecting a given set of points which partitions the convex hull of the points into the minimum number of convex regions.

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Ended on: May 30, 2019, noon (AoE)
CG:SHOP 2019
Organized by: Erik Demaine , Sándor Fekete , Joseph S. B. Mitchell

First CG:SHOP competition as part of a workshop at CG Week 2019. The problem was to compute polygons with minimal or maximal area for a given point set.

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