Re: (cLive ;-) Re: getting my neighbours in an N-dimensional space

Not quite. Remember, I was only looking for neighbours nearer the origin:

0

  NN
  N*

So it is 2, not 3, because you only have (0,-1) not (1,0,-1). That's why the "binary number" hack would work. And the was taken care of by doing for (1 .. not for (0 ...

dave hj~

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Re: Re: (cLive ;-) Re: getting my neighbours in an N-dimensional space by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Jan 22, 2002 at 21:50 UTC
2 neighbors 8 neighbors 26 neighbors 80 neighbors That's for all neighbors. As for neighbors near the origin ... that's a completely different set of numbers. And, in 3-D, it's not (2*N - 1). It's some weirder formula. ------ We are the carpenters and bricklayers of the Information Age.* Don't go borrowing trouble. For programmers, this means Worry only about what you need to implement.	[reply]