Zinc is a C++ library for spatial processing.

• Zinc provides efficient functions for processing Morton codes, and things built from Morton codes.
  • Currently only Morton curves because they are the easiest to implement and the only space filling curve on which some functions can be implemented, see get_next_z_address
• Intervals are a start and end point on the Morton curve.
• Regions are a finite list of intervals, able to represent arbitrary regions in N-dimensional space.
  • Morton regions a.k.a. linear octree
• Intervals and Regions can store data, so they can be used as map types, not just set types.
• AABBs (Axis-Aligned Bounding Boxes) can be used for creating regions
• Regions have all the boolean set operations implemented on them apart from Xor: union, intersection, subtraction
• They can be efficiently indexed by position
• This is alpha software, but it may be useful

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• The Morton code type is currently limited to a single word size, so the Dimension and BitsPerDimension are currently limited to 2,32 and 3,21.
  • This is under active development

For usage examples, see test/zinc-test.cc

• A C++17 compiler

For testing and installing:

• Meson sudo apt install meson
• we use clang++ >= 7 by default for better sanitisation
  • for -fsanitize=implicit-conversion and -fsanitize=integer
  • you can disable them in meson.build

CXX=clang++ meson out

ninja test -C out

ninja install -C out (needs permissions for /usr/local/include)

Zn comes from Z-order curve in N dimensions, and all the cool kids name their libraries after elements.

• libmorton
• google s2