space-filling curve

See also: spacefilling curve

English

Noun

The fourth stage of construction of a Gosper curve, a kind of space-filling curve.

space-filling curve (plural space-filling curves)

1. (mathematical analysis) a curve whose range contains the entire 2-dimensional unit square (or the 3-dimensional unit cube)
   • From space-filling curves it can be deduced that $\mathbb {R} ^{2}$ and $\mathbb {R} ^{3}$ have the same cardinality as $\mathbb {R}$.

Related terms

• Peano curve