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5. Spatial Partitioning<br />

• break a larger problem down into smaller<br />

ones, by assigning objects to spatially<br />

coherent groups as a preprocessing step<br />

– 2D - use a grid on the image plane<br />

– 3D - use a grid over object space<br />

– Adaptive partitioning techniques for irregularly<br />

distributed objects in space: size of partitions<br />

vary<br />

• Quadtrees, octrees<br />

• BSP-trees (binary space partition trees)<br />

© Machiraju/Zhang/Möller<br />

• kd-trees<br />

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