When can a freely moving sphere escape from a ‘cage’ defined by a set of impassible coordinates?
- by RGrey
Hopefully there are some computational geometry folks here who can help me out with the following problem -
Please imagine that I take a freely moving ball in 3-space and create a 'cage' around it by defining a set of impassible coordinates, Sc (i.e. points in 3-space that no part of the diffusing ball is allowed to overlap). These points reside within the volume, V(cage), of some larger sphere, where V(cage) V(ball).
Provided the set of impassible coordinates, Sc, is there a computationally efficient and/or nice way to determine if the ball can ever escape the cage?