Monday 28 January 2019

Hilbert and Morton Curves in JTS

I just landed a JTS pull request for Hilbert and Morton (Z-order) codes and curves.
Hilbert Curve of level 3
Morton Curve of level 3

Apart from pretty pictures of fractals, the goal is to support experimenting with Packed Hilbert R-trees, as an alternative to the current Sort-Tile-Recursive packing strategy (implemented as STRtree in JTS).  STRtrees are heavily used to speed up spatial algorithms inside JTS (and externally as per recent report). So if Hilbert curve-based packing provides better performance that would be a big win.


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