pathfinding

Noun

1. The plotting by a computer application of the best route between two points.
   • When a suitable site block is detected, the villager starts pathfinding to it, staking a provisional claim. - 2024 December 11 (last accessed), “Villager”, in Minecraft Wiki:
2. The finding of a path to a destination, such as by neuronal axons or developing cells.
   • It comes as a shock to realize that Albert Einstein, whose theories still seem so futuristic and Star Trekky, did his first pathfinding work almost a century ago. - 2002 November 29, Philip M. Boffey, “Editorial...