Why were you needing floodfill?

zimpenfish 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

To find connected regions on a map. I could probably have been smarter about the initial generation and connected things as they were generated (but that has only just occurred to me. Worth a go, I suppose.)

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kragen 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Use union-find to find connected regions on a map, not flood-fill.

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zimpenfish 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I assume you mean "connected-component labeling" with union-find as the underlying "manage the sets" algorithm? If not, a link would be helpful.

	▲	kragen an hour ago \| parent [-]
		What I mean could be described that way, but I'm not sure if you mean the same thing. Just in case, I elicited an implementation from Opus 5.5. I have carefully verified that this implementation implements what I mean: http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/union-find-components.html

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cyberax 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I also wrote a floodfill a while ago! We have a mapping app, and our imagery provider returns half-filled tiles at the edge of their coverage. And annoyingly, they don't have any metadata within the tile itself that indicates the coverage. They just return black pixels for a part of the tile.

So I needed a way to detect that, and doing a floodfill from the edge of the image turned out to be the easiest way.