Linkless Octree Using Multi-Level Perfect Hashing

The standard C/C++ implementation of a spatial partitioning data structure, such as octree and quadtree, is often inefficient in terms of storage requirements particularly when the memory overhead for maintaining parent-to-child pointers is significant with respect to the amount of actual data in each tree node. In this work, we present a novel data structure that implements uniform spatial partitioning without storing explicit parent-to-child pointer links. Our linkless tree encodes the storage locations of subdivided nodes using perfect hashing while retaining important properties of uniform spatial partitioning trees, such as coarse-to-fine hierarchical representation, efficient storage usage, and efficient random accessibility. We demonstrate the performance of our linkless trees using image compression and path planning examples.

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Myung Geol Choi, Eunjung Ju, Jungwoo Chang, Young J Kim, Jehee Lee, Linkless Octree Using Multi-Level Perfect Hashing, Computer Graphics Forum (Pacific Graphics 2009), Vol.28,No.8.pp.1773-1780
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