NAME
Math::PlanePath::ZOrderCurve -- alternate digits to X and Y
SYNOPSIS
use Math::PlanePath::ZOrderCurve;
my $path = Math::PlanePath::ZOrderCurve->new;
my ($x, $y) = $path->n_to_xy (123);
# or another radix digits ...
my $path3 = Math::PlanePath::ZOrderCurve->new (radix => 3);DESCRIPTION
This path puts points in a self-similar Z pattern described by G.M. Morton,
7 | 42 43 46 47 58 59 62 63
6 | 40 41 44 45 56 57 60 61
5 | 34 35 38 39 50 51 54 55
4 | 32 33 36 37 48 49 52 53
3 | 10 11 14 15 26 27 30 31
2 | 8 9 12 13 24 25 28 29
1 | 2 3 6 7 18 19 22 23
Y=0 | 0 1 4 5 16 17 20 21 64 ...
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X=0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8The first four points make a "Z" shape if written with Y going downwards (inverted if drawn upwards as above),
0---1 Y=0
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2---3 Y=1Then groups of those are arranged as a further Z, etc, doubling in size each time.
0 1 4 5 Y=0
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8 9 --- 12 13 Y=2
10 11 14 15 Y=3Within an power of 2 square 2x2, 4x4, 8x8, 16x16 etc (2^k)x(2^k), all the N values 0 to 2^(2*k)-1 are within the square. The top right corner 3, 15, 63, 255 etc of each is the 2^(2*k)-1 maximum.
Along the X axis N=0,1,4,5,16,17,etc is the integers with only digits 0,1 in base 4. Along the Y axis N=0,2,8,10,32,etc is the integers with only digits 0,2 in base 4. And along the X=Y diagonal N=0,3,12,15,etc is digits 0,3 in base 4.
In the base Z pattern it can be seen that transposing to Y,X means swapping parts 1 and 2. This applies in the sub-parts too so in general if N is at X,Y then changing base 4 digits 1<->2 gives the N at the transpose Y,X. For example N=22 at X=6,Y=1 is base-4 "112", change 1<->2 is "221" for N=41 at X=1,Y=6.
Power of 2 Values
Plotting N values related to powers of 2 can come out as interesting patterns. For example displaying the N's which have no digit 3 in their base 4 representation gives
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Plotting the fibbinary numbers (eg. Math::NumSeq::Fibbinary) which are N values with no adjacent 1 bits in binary makes an attractive tree-like pattern,
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Radix
The radix parameter can do the same N <-> X/Y digit splitting in a higher base. For example radix 3 makes 3x3 groupings,
radix => 3
5 | 33 34 35 42 43 44
4 | 30 31 32 39 40 41
3 | 27 28 29 36 37 38 45 ...
2 | 6 7 8 15 16 17 24 25 26
1 | 3 4 5 12 13 14 21 22 23
Y=0 | 0 1 2 9 10 11 18 19 20
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X=0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8Along the X axis N=0,1,2,9,10,11,etc is integers with only digits 0,1,2 in base 9. Along the Y axis digits 0,3,6, and along the X=Y diagonal digits 0,4,8. In general for a given radix it's base R*R with the R many digits of the first RxR block.
FUNCTIONS
See "FUNCTIONS" in Math::PlanePath for behaviour common to all path classes.
$path = Math::PlanePath::ZOrderCurve->new ()$path = Math::PlanePath::ZOrderCurve->new (radix => $r)-
Create and return a new path object. The optional
radixparameter gives the base for digit splitting (the default is binary, radix 2). ($x,$y) = $path->n_to_xy ($n)-
Return the X,Y coordinates of point number
$non the path. Points begin at 0 and if$n < 0then the return is an empty list.Fractional positions give an X,Y position along a straight line between the integer positions. The lines don't overlap, but the lines between bit squares soon become rather long and probably of very limited use.
$n = $path->xy_to_n ($x,$y)-
Return an integer point number for coordinates
$x,$y. Each integer N is considered the centre of a unit square and an$x,$ywithin that square returns N. ($n_lo, $n_hi) = $path->rect_to_n_range ($x1,$y1, $x2,$y2)-
The returned range is exact, meaning
$n_loand$n_hiare the smallest and biggest in the rectangle.
FORMULAS
N to X,Y
The coordinate calculation is simple. The bits of X and Y are every second bit of N. So if N = binary 101010 then X=000 and Y=111 in binary, which is the N=42 shown above at X=0,Y=7.
With the radix parameter the digits are treated likewise, in the given radix rather than binary.
Rectangle to N Range
Within each row the N values increase as X increases, and within each column N increases with increasing Y (for all radix parameters).
So for a given rectangle the smallest N is at the lower left corner (smallest X and smallest Y), and the biggest N is at the upper right (biggest X and biggest Y).
OEIS
This path is in Sloane's Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences in various forms,
http://oeis.org/A059905 (etc)
A059905 X coordinate of radix=2
A059906 Y coordinate of radix=2
A163325 X coordinate of radix=3
A163326 Y coordinate of radix=3
A080463 X+Y of radix=10 (from N=1 onwards)
A080464 X*Y of radix=10 (from N=10 onwards)
A080465 abs(X-Y) of radix=10 (from N=10 onwards)
A000695 N on X axis radix=2, is base 4 digits 0,1 only
A062880 N on Y axis radix=2, is base 4 digits 0,2 only
A001196 N on diagonal radix=2, is base 4 digits 0,3 only
A037314 N on X axis radix=3, is base 9 digits 0,1,2
A051022 N on X axis radix=10, is base 100 digits 0to9
A057300 N at transpose Y,X, is swap adjacent bits
A163327 N at transpose Y,X radix=3, swap adjacent digitsAnd taking X,Y points in the Diagonals sequence then the value of the following sequences is the N of the ZOrderCurve at those positions.
A054238 numbering by diagonals, from same axis as first step
A054239 inverse permutation
A163328 numbering radix=3 by diagonals, same axis as first step
A163329 inverse permutation
A163330 numbering radix=3 by diagonals, opp axis as first step
A163331 inverse permutationMath::PlanePath::Diagonals numbers points from the Y axis down, which is the opposite axis to the ZOrderCurve first step along the X axis, so a transpose is needed to give A054238.
SEE ALSO
Math::PlanePath, Math::PlanePath::PeanoCurve, Math::PlanePath::HilbertCurve, Math::PlanePath::ImaginaryBase, Math::PlanePath::CornerReplicate, Math::PlanePath::DigitGroups
http://www.jjj.de/fxt/#fxtbook (section 1.31.2)
Algorithm::QuadTree, DBIx::SpatialKeys
HOME PAGE
http://user42.tuxfamily.org/math-planepath/index.html
LICENSE
Copyright 2010, 2011, 2012 Kevin Ryde
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