I have tentative plans to implement something similar on my server. I have not read this entire thread but from the gist I got my approach would be very different. There are already well established techniques and algorithms for dividing and searching space. See quadtree or octtree. If I do have a go I will share the results, whether successful or not.
__________________
Drajor regards you indifferently -- what would you like your tombstone to say?
|