Re: [boost] metrics and tree stuctures

From: Thorsten Ottosen (nesotto_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-03 10:07:49

D. Kevin McGrath <dmcgrath <at> cs.indiana.edu> writes:

> 
> I'm interested in adding support for arbitrary metrics (euclidean  
> distance, taxi-cab, etc) to boost so that I can make use it, as well  
> as some alternate tree structures, such as kd-trees.  I can't quite  
> figure out where they would be most appropriately placed, and it  
> doesn't seem as if there is enough (or enough similarity) to have a  
> totally separate library.  Anyone have any thoughts?

It might make sense to put it Boost.Stat, ie, a statistics package for boost.

There are some basic stuff in the sandbox in the "stat" directory, but 
I have stalled development currently (for several reasons, most notably lack of 
time). My next step would have been to add generic matrix algorithms to 
implement stuff like inversion. Anyway, I feel kd-trees and metrics 
would fit nicely into this lib.

best regards

-Thorsten