When solving Boggle, Sudoku or some n-by-n board game or when doing Image analysis or Parallel Computing – it is often useful to be able to represent one-dimensional data structures in 2-dimension and vice-versa.
Simple formulae exists for doing this conversion, as illustrated below:
Converting from Row by Col 2-dimensional (2-index) format to a 1-by-(Row*Col) matrix with only one index:
