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11 Oct 2024 07:13:18 EDT (-0400)
  Re: In search of a search algorithm  
From: Warp
Date: 3 Nov 2007 13:19:35
Message: <472cbbb7@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> I want a data structure that stores key/value pairs where the keys are 
> points in 3D space. In particular, I want to be able to *efficiently* 
> look up the N points nearest to any given location.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nearest_neighbor_search
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-tree
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kd_tree

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                                                          - Warp


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