A pattern of fractally traversing a quadrant of a plane of integers such that the plane is equally divided into 4^n parts for integer values of n, like so:
01 02 05 06 17 ...
03 04 07 08 19 ...
09 10 13 14 25 ...
11 12 15 16 27 ...
33 34 etc ...
Is there any good use for this, or is it just a cool pattern? Does it already exist under another name?
It looks like a MortonOrder matrix to me. (Also known as Z-order, so you were thinking along the same lines as others.) When I was in graduate school, one of the professors was researching using the MortonOrder matrix representation to improve data locality. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=379559 --BrookeChenowethCreel
I use it for music notation, see SyntaxOfMusic.