On 6/4/2010 3:45 PM, SharkD wrote:
> Is there a good way to, for instance, place a number of trees randomly
> without having them overlap?
>
> Currently, I use an array to store the positions and compare each new
> tree to all the previous ones. This is however very slow.
>
> I could also create a multi-dimensional B-tree array that divides the
> world into a grid, thereby reducing the number of items to look up. I
> wonder if that would speed things.
>
>


On second thought I don't think this will work because array sizes must 
be known beforehand, and with a B-tree sorting method there's no 
guarantee how many items a node will hold.

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