>Oh....name that tune in one note Colin! Forgetting what he wants for a sec
>- what are you thinking?
The area consists of 9500 non-overlapping rectangles, and you want to
test a point to see which rectangle it's within. Go through all the
rects and fill an area of an image with a particular color (perhaps
make it a 16 bit image, which would be enough for testing up to 32768
rects). The first rect would be filled with color 1, second with
color 2, etc. That should all happen fairly quickly, but it doesn't
matter. It can take all day and not affect the bit that needs to be
quick.
You now have a bitmap. You say:
whichrect = member("colorrects").getpixel(x,y)
Surely that will be faster than 9500 inside tests!
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