Spatial Index Demos

Brought to you by Frantisek Brabec (brabec at cs.umd.edu) and Hanan Samet (hjs at cs.umd.edu).

These applets are based on algorithms published in the following books:

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A short course on some of the algorithms and data structures used in these applets was held at UC Berkeley on March 29-31, 1999.


If you are interested in these spatial index demos, you could be also interested in our most recently developed software - SAND Internet Browser. SAND is a spatial data browser and spatial database engine with Java front-end.


Window and Range search operations were replaced by more general Overlap Search. Overlap Search finds all the objects (e.g., rectangles) in the current data structure that intersect the query object (e.g., a path). The particular type of intersection can be specified by setting the additional conditions.

More query object types for which the nearest neighbor algorithm can be run were added. Now you can rank objects by their distance from point, rectangle, polygon, path, and sector. Also the Within query was added that finds all the objects within a given distance from a query object.


Spatial Datastructures Visualization

Instructions and further information about the visualization tool can be found below.

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Points


Rectangles


Lines


Region Quadtrees


Operations

For an explanation of the implemented algorithms as well as their visualization and animation, click on one of the following links:

Other Features