[net.graphics] peano curve

samadani@Shasta.ARPA (11/22/85)

I recently wrote a program that takes an image in TV scan order and
puts it in a scan order which approximates the peano curve. This 
brings up a couple of questions which I don't know enough to solve:

Considering images to be of size M = N*N, where N is of the form 2^n,
we can think of the transformation to be a permutation "peano(m)"
where m = 0,1,...,M - 1. 

What I am interested in is, given the group of permutations of M elements,
what is the order of the permutation peano(m)? How does one find the
inverse to this permutation? Are there easy general results regarding
finding the inverse of a permutation?


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