feat: implement findWithinBox #272
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Summary
This PR adds a new
findWithinBoxmethod to KDTree that provides direct bounding box search functionality with significant performance improvements over the traditional radius search approach.Motivation
Currently, searching for points within an axis-aligned bounding box requires:
This approach is inefficient, especially for 2D spatial queries where we need to find or count all points within rectangular regions.
Changes
New functionality
findWithinBoxmethod that directly traverses the KD-tree using box boundaries for pruningPerformance improvements
Benchmarked on a 300k point dataset in 2D space:
Testing
Minor formatting