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Michael McCandless commented on LUCENE-8396:
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This looks really cool! It is great to see many dimensions being used with
points. +1 to push to sandbox and iterate there.
> Add Points Based Shape Indexing
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>
> Key: LUCENE-8396
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-8396
> Project: Lucene - Core
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Nicholas Knize
> Priority: Major
> Attachments: LUCENE-8396.patch, polyWHole.png, tessellatedPoly.png
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>
> I've been tinkering with this for a while and would like to solicit some
> feedback. I'd like to introduce a new shape field based on the BKD/Points
> codec to bring much of the Points based performance improvements to the shape
> indexing and search usecase. Much like the existing shape indexing in
> {{spatial-extras}} the shape will be decomposed into smaller parts, but
> instead of decomposing into quad cells (which have the drawback of precision
> accuracy and sheer volume of terms) I'd like to explore decomposing the
> shapes into a triangular mesh; similar to gaming and computer graphics. Not
> only does this approach reduce the number of terms, but it has the added
> benefit of better accuracy (precision is based on the index encoding
> technique instead of the spatial resolution of the quad cell).
> For better clarity, consider the following illustrations (of a polygon in a 1
> degree x 1 degree spatial area). The first is using the quad tree technique
> applied in the existing inverted index. The second is using a triangular mesh
> decomposition as used by popular OpenGL and javascript rendering systems
> (such as those used by mapbox).
> !polyWHole.png!
> Decomposing this shape using a quad tree results in 1,105,889 quad terms at 3
> meter spatial resolution.
> !tessellatedPoly.png!
>
> Decomposing using a triangular mesh results in 8 triangles at the same
> resolution as {{encodeLat/Lon}}.
> The decomposed triangles can then be encoded as a 6 dimensional POINT and
> queries are implemented using the computed relations against these triangles
> (similar to how its done with the inverted index today).
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