Predicting x,y coordinates together or as multiple fields

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Hello!
I’m trying to build a program in which NuPIC would predict the next step of moving a point on a 2D plane. I have a plane that I divided into 16x16 squares, so the current coordinates of the point are two integers, for example (1, 10) or (16, 10). I read the coordinates periodically at regular intervals. I want to get a prediction of the point’s coordinate in the next step, based on the previous point movement. Unfortunately, I did not find the opportunity to get the prediction from two dimensions at once.
NuPIC will be able to predict the coordinates (x,y)? Or should I consider each coordinate separately?

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Hi there, I would take a look at experiments surrounding the GeospatialCoordinateEncoder, and things like @rhyolight’s experiments with Minecraft? Sorry I can’t provide links at the time of this writing…

Cheers!
David

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Here’s the Minecraft example:

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You could also encode location using grid-cell techniques like this:

gcm-sdr

And here is my grid cell code that runs it.

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@rhyolight

I just can’t get over just how freakin’ cool that is!!! :smiley:

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Does any one port this code of @rhyolight into c++?

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@rhyolight: in the function:

 parallelogramitize(x, y) {
        // Shift every other row to get a pseudo hex grid
        let xmod = x
        let ymod = y
        xmod += y / 2;
        // ymod = y - (this.scale - Math.sin(60 * (Math.PI / 180)));
        ymod = y - (y * 0.1);
        return [xmod, ymod]
    }

I think the current Calculation of ymod is not correct. Am I Right?

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This puzzled me, too. I thought my trig was right, but the 10% estimate I did made the hex grid look much more natural.

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Ok, thank, I can only check it after porting your code into c++. I think the porting will be straighforwards…

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well,

y - (y * 0.1)

is y*0.9
… which looks ‘natural enough’ since 0.9 is quite close to the exact factor which is sin 60°, aka ~0.8660254

so,

ymod = y*0.8660254

and you’re done :wink:

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@gmirey thanks for explain …