Josh Jersild

@JoshJers@mastodon.gamedev.place

What would you call an array of numbers where each pair of floats is a complex number, i.e:

real0, imaginary0, real1, imaginary1, ...

23 votes Β·
March 15, 2026 at 6:16:12 AM

My oldschool wants to say 'packed', but - sigh - the begrudging requirement to be able to communicate with modern humans says 'interleaved'.

interleaved is currently the clear winner and I was hoping it wouldn't be because it's the longest one 🫠

complex pairs in a flat array ?

yep - I'm trying to decide on a good one word descriptor for function identifiers πŸ˜„

@JoshJers
We've seen interleaved (as opposed to planar)

I'd just call it an array of complex.

there's actual complex types, though ("complex float" in C and "complex<float>" in C++ - so I want a name for the function that takes it as just an array of floats to disambiguate

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