The root node the tree indicated bold splitting line

Figure A.7: Basic process of kd-tree lookups. The point marked with an “x” is the lookup position, and the region of interest is denoted by the circular region around it. At the root node of the tree (indicated by a bold splitting line), the data item is outside of the region of interest, so it is not handed to the callback function. However, the region overlaps both children of the node, so we have to recursively consider each of them. We will consider the right child (child number one) first, however, in order to examine the nearby data items before examining the ones farther away.