2011/01/01 by Colton Magnant, Daniel M. Martin · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Color Science and Applications
paper · doi:10.7151/dmgt.1535
openalex publication_date 2011/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11
If rooms in an office building are allowed to be any rectangular solid, how many colors does it take to paint any configuration of rooms so that no two rooms sharing a wall or ceiling/floor get the same color? In this work, we provide a new construction which shows this number can be arbitrarily large.