/sfcurves

utilities for space filling curves

Primary LanguagePython

Utilities (mapping, unmapping, calculating enclosing polygon) for space filling curves (currently only Hilbert). Future plans include minimizing the enclosing polygon, calculating centroids, and supporting more curves like Peano.

Examples:

Map 31 from the 1-dimension domain [0,64) to x,y in [0,16):

>>> from sfcurves import hilbert
>>> hilbert.forward(31, 64)
(3, 4)

Reverse map (3,4) to the 1-dimension [0,64):

>>> hilbert.reverse(3, 4, 64)
31

If you're mapping the entire domain, then using the generator is considerably faster:

>>> g = hilbert.generator(64)
>>> next(g)
(0, 0)
>>> next(g)
(0, 1)

Calculate an enclosing polygon for the mapped points 0 thru 6 in the 1-dimension domain [0,64)

>>> hilbert.outline(0, 6, 64)
[(0, 0), (1, 0), (2, 0), (3, 0), (3, 1), (3, 0), (2, 0), (1, 0), (1, 1), (0, 1)]