Library of Efficient Datatypes and Algorithms
LEP: SD Trees
     An implementation of a binary tree as data structure for constant time searching in two-dimensional space
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Peter Hilpert 
MPI Informatik 
Im Stadtwald 
66123 Saarbrücken 
Germany 
email: PHilpert@aol.com 
     This LEP implements a data structure that provides nearest-neighbour- and other kinds of search algorithms on static sets of points in two-dimensional space with euclidean distances. The data structure of the binary search tree allows to execute these searches in amortised constant time.
Bibliography 
  • The Implementation Document 
  • K-d Trees for Semidynamic Point Sets

  • J.L. Bentley 
    6th Annual ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry 
    254-263, 1990 

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