Spanning tree on grid with minimum number of turns

Revision en2, by shaviava, 2018-08-03 13:18:57

Is there an algorithm to find a spanning tree of an undirected grid graph which minimizes the number of turns in tree? A turn is when there are two edges connected to one vertex which have perpendicular directions.

In this problem we have arbitrary set of cells in grid which form a connected graph.

For example, given a 4 x 4 grid graph (see image below), we want to find a spanning tree like that on the right (which has 6 turns) rather than that on the left (which has 14):

Ideas about approximate algorithms may be useful too.

Tags graph, spanning tree, minimum spanning tree

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