[jira] [Created] (LUCENE-7199) Improve algorithm for randomly finding an interior point for Geo3D polygons

["Karl Wright (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Karl Wright created LUCENE-7199:
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             Summary: Improve algorithm for randomly finding an interior point for Geo3D polygons
                 Key: LUCENE-7199
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-7199
             Project: Lucene - Core
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: modules/spatial3d
    Affects Versions: master
            Reporter: Karl Wright
            Assignee: Karl Wright


[~mikemccand]'s benchmark for polygon search shows that constructing Geo3D polygon queries is quite expensive compared to other technologies.  My belief is that this is due largely to how an interior point for determination of clockwise/counterclockwise are found: this is currently searched for randomly across the entire globe.

I suspect that we could replace this algorithm with a random algorithm that uses one of the polygon's edge points and looks randomly within a small distance of that point.  This would greatly reduce the number of failed attempts to find a "pole" (as I call it).




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