I didn't read this very carefully, caveat emptor. Just a thought of mine that popped up: This reminds me of branch-and-bound problems because time could be tre

I didn't read this very carefully, caveat emptor. Just a thought of mine that popped up: This reminds me of branch-and-bound problems because time could be treated as a dimension and polygons are linearly bound spaces in the sense of branch-and-bound.