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halfspace range searching

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Definition

Finding which points in a collection lie on a given side of a line or plane.

A classical computational-geometry problem: given a set of points and a query halfspace, retrieve all points contained in it, with various data structures providing tradeoffs.

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    Sparse Attention Was the Wrong Frame. Treat It as Geometry Instead.