Looping in a spiral

Question

A friend was in need of an algorithm that would let him loop through the elements of an NxM matrix (N and M are odd). I came up with a solution, but I wanted to see if my fe

Answer 1

C# version, handles non-square sizes as well.

private static Point[] TraverseSpiral(int width, int height) {
    int numElements = width * height + 1;
    Point[] points = new Point[numElements];

    int x = 0;
    int y = 0;
    int dx = 1;
    int dy = 0;
    int xLimit = width - 0;
    int yLimit = height - 1;
    int counter = 0;

    int currentLength = 1;
    while (counter < numElements) {
        points[counter] = new Point(x, y);

        x += dx;
        y += dy;

        currentLength++;
        if (dx > 0) {
            if (currentLength >= xLimit) {
                dx = 0;
                dy = 1;
                xLimit--;
                currentLength = 0;
            }
        } else if (dy > 0) {
            if (currentLength >= yLimit) {
                dx = -1;
                dy = 0;
                yLimit--;
                currentLength = 0;
            }
        } else if (dx < 0) {
            if (currentLength >= xLimit) {
                dx = 0;
                dy = -1;
                xLimit--;
                currentLength = 0;
            }
        } else if (dy < 0) {
            if (currentLength >= yLimit) {
                dx = 1;
                dy = 0;
                yLimit--;
                currentLength = 0;
            }
        }

        counter++;
    }

    Array.Reverse(points);
    return points;
}