help with choosing proper data structure

Hi!

I have level that consists of cubes. it will be vary in size but lets say it will be like this
width: 8 cubes
heigth 8 cubes
length 16 cubes

cube is 1 scale

I currently generate it by looping and translating by 1 unit like this:

Code (CSharp):

1. IEnumerator Create()
2.     {
3.         for (int i = 0; i < Length; i++)
4.         {
5.             for (int j = 0; j < Height; j++)
6.             {
7.                 for (int k = 0; k < Width; k++)
8.                 {
9.                     var g = NGUITools.AddChild(Root, Prefab);
10.                     if (g != null)
11.                     {
12.                         g.transform.position = Vector3.zero;
13.                         g.transform.rotation = Quaternion.identity;
14.                        
15.                         g.transform.Translate(new Vector3(k-Width/2f+ 0.5f,j-Height/2f+ 0.5f,i-Length/2f+ 0.5f));
16.                     }
17.  
18.                     yield return null;
19.                 }
20.             }
21.          
22.         }
23.     }

I used NGUITools.AddChild because cube has some ui elements that are displayed on one of its sides. this propery creates the cubes, i am just wondering how to store this information so i can easily access cubes that are on the surface or by some meanful way. any ideas? jagged arrays? lists,dict or something else?

any idea is appreciated!

 

Fit the solution to the problem. Since it's only a maximum of 1024 objects, you can probably get by with a simple 3-dimensional array. If you have more objects, you could use a BSP tree, octree, or similar space partitioning technique. I think the solution will depend on what your requirements are for getting information in "some meaningful way".