New obstacle class that has many obstacles of same type?

[Datseris]

So, let's say a user wants to create hundredths of disks in a billiard. Currently this will make a tuple of this amount of obstacles. Maybe that is not super performant since the tuple is parameterized for each individual entry, even if they are the same.

I propose to create a new struct, ObstacleVector{O, T} that is parameterized on an obstacle O and the number type.

For this to work we simply have to propagate the collision time methods to simply loop over all obstacles in the vector. The same for distance, etc etc.

The only difficulty is that this messes with the obstacle index i. Because when you write i, tmin = next_collision(bd, p) what will i be? The billiard can have some wall obstacles and an ObstacleVector obstacle. How to do this?

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