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		arghbleargh on Oct 26, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Applying the Linus Torvalds “Good Taste” Coding Re... Isn't it simple enough to make three bounds checks to essentially do the same thing you did with the zero padding? You can even make it a function `is_in_bounds(x, y, z)`

jordigh on Oct 26, 2016 [–]

It's n-dimensional, not 3-dimensional.

Also, it's really slow and wasteful to be doing bounds-checking for each voxel of an image that is almost completely not a boundary, whereas you can't avoid checking if each voxel is lit. :-)

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