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m.a@stars[/email] wrote on Thu, 09 March 2006 11:07]I agree about penscan looking more like geometry problem. Trouble is, those circle overlaps take CPU power to calculate... Sherlock


Not lot of ... Condition: "If distance between centers is less than 2 radiuses then they overlap." Distance is similar like in non-pen scouting. With 1000 planets there are only half million possible pairs, so some eyeblink time it certainly takes on modern computer (with C++ at least) to consider all possible pairs in huge packed. The graph picture i attached has same complexity and it did not take a second for it to spit it out. Nod Then there is 3-way algorithm and then there is 4-way algorithm but these got all less and less cases to consider.

If you use minor power languages like java, python or visual basic you must probably use some trick to limit the pairs to consider. I know why i love C/C++. Rare need to optimize. I can usually use brute force algorithms that are easy to read and maintain. Very Happy


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