diff --git a/src/neighborhood.py b/src/neighborhood.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..68efc5e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/neighborhood.py
@@ -0,0 +1,127 @@
+"""
+A neighborhood is a collection of cells around a given cell.
+
+The neighborhood is closely related to a configuration, which
+defines how a neighborhood is expected to look. One can think
+of a neighborhood as an instantiation of a given configuration,
+as it contains a focus cell and the cells that should be considered
+when determing the focus cell's next state.
+
+@date: June 18, 2015
+"""
+
+class Neighborhood:
+    """
+    The neighborhood is a wrapper class that stores information regarding a particular cell.
+    Offsets must be added separate from instantiation, since it isn't always necessary to
+    perform this computation in the first place (for example, if an ALWAYS_PASS flag is passed
+    as opposed to a MATCH flag).
+    """
+    def __init__(self, index):
+        """
+        Initializes the center cell.
+
+        Offsetted cells belonging in the given neighborhood must be added separately.
+        """
+        self.total = 0
+        self.index = index
+        self.neighbors = []
+
+    def populate(self, offsets, plane):
+        """
+        Given the plane and offsets, determines the cells in the given neighborhood.
+
+        Note this is a relatively expensive operation, especially if called on every cell
+        in a CAM every tick. Instead, consider using the provided class methods which
+        shift through the bitarray instead of recomputing offsets
+        """
+        self.neighbors = plane[offsets]
+        self.total = len(self.neighbors)
+
+    @classmethod
+    def get_neighborhoods(cls, plane, offsets):
+        """
+        Given the list of offsets, return a list of neighborhoods corresponding to every cell.
+
+        Since offsets should generally stay fixed for each cell in a plane, we first flatten
+        the coordinates (@offsets should be a list of tuples) relative to the first component
+        and cycle through all cells.
+
+        NOTE: If all you need are the total number of cells in each neighborhood, call the
+        get_totals method instead, which is significantly faster.
+        """
+        neighborhoods = []
+
+        if plane.N > 0:
+            f_offsets = list(map(plane.flatten, offsets))
+            for i in range(len(plane.bits)):
+                neighborhood = Neighborhood(i)
+                for j in range(len(f_offsets)):
+                    neighborhood.neighbors.append(plane.bits[j])
+                    plane.bits[j] += 1
+                neighborhood.total = len(neighborhood.neighbors)
+                neighborhoods.append(neighborhood)
+
+        return neighborhoods
+
+    @classmethod
+    def get_totals(cls, plane, offsets):
+        """
+        Returns the total number of neighbors for each cell in a plane.
+
+        After profiling with a previous version, I found that going through each index and totaling the number
+        of active states was taking much longer than I liked. Instead, we compute as many neighborhoods as possible
+        simultaneously, avoiding explicit summation via the "sum" function, at least for each state separately.
+
+        Because the states are now represented as binary values, we instead add the binary representations together.
+        And since offsets are generally consistent between each invocation of the "tick" function, we can add a row
+        at a time. For example, given a plane P of shape (3, 3) and the following setup:
+
+        [[0, 1, 1, 0, 1]
+        ,[1, 0, 0, 1, 1]    ALIGN    11010    SUM
+        ,[0, 1, 1, 0, 0]  =========> 11000 =========> 32111
+        ,[1, 0, 0, 1, 0]             10101
+        ,[0, 0, 0, 0, 1]
+        ]
+
+        with focus cell (1, 1) in the middle and offsets (-1, 0), (1, 0), (-1, 1), we can align the cells according to the above.
+        The resulting sum states there are 3 neighbors at (1, 1), 2 neighbors at (1, 2), and 1 neighbor at (1, 3), (1, 4), and (1, 0).
+
+        We do this in chunks of 9, depending on the number of offsets, so no overflowing of a single column can occur.
+        We can then find the total of the ith neighborhood by checking the sum of the ith index of the summation of every
+        9 chunks of numbers (this is done at the Nth-1 dimension).
+        """
+        neighborhoods = []
+
+        # In the first dimension, we have to simply loop through and count for each bit
+        if 0 < plane.N <= 1:
+            for i in range(len(plane.bits)):
+                neighborhoods.append(sum([plane.bits[i+j] for j in offsets]))
+        else:
+            for level in range(plane.shape[0]):
+
+                # Since working in N dimensional space, we calculate the totals at a
+                # rate of N-1. We do this by generalizing the above doc description, and
+                # limit our focus to the offsetted subplane adjacent to the current level,
+                # then slicing the returned set of bits accordingly
+                neighboring = []
+                for offset in offsets:
+                    adj_level = level + offset[0]
+                    sub_plane = plane[adj_level]
+                    sub_index = sub_plane.flatten(offset[1:])
+                    sequence = sub_plane.bits[sub_index:] + sub_plane.bits[:sub_index]
+                    neighboring.append(int(sequence.to01()))
+
+                # Collect our totals, breaking up each set of neighborhood totals into 9
+                # and then adding the resulting collection back up (note once chunks have
+                # been added, we add each digit separately (the total reduced by factor of 9))
+                totals = [0] * (plane.offsets[0])
+                chunks = map(sum, [neighboring[i:i+9] for i in range(0, len(neighboring), 9)])
+                for chunk in chunks:
+                    padded_chunk = map(int, str(chunk).zfill(len(totals)))
+                    totals = map(sum, zip(totals, padded_chunk))
+
+                # Neighboring totals now align with original grid
+                neighborhoods += list(totals)
+
+        return neighborhoods
diff --git a/src/plane.py b/src/plane.py
index 1d11307..4170624 100644
--- a/src/plane.py
+++ b/src/plane.py
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ class Plane:
         # If it does not, can simply return the new plane given the subset accessed.
         # If it does, we return the actual bit.
         if type(index) is tuple:
-            offset = sum([x*y for (x,y) in zip(index, self.offsets)])
+            offset = sum([x*y for (x,y) in zip(index, self.offsets)]) % len(self.bits)
             if len(index) == self.N:
                 return self.bits[offset]
             else:
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ class Plane:
             return self.bits[index]
         else:
             delta = self.offsets[0]
-            offset = index * delta
+            offset = (index * delta) % len(self.bits)
             return Plane(self.shape[1:], self.bits[offset:offset+delta])
 
     def __setitem__(self, index, value):
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ class Plane:
         100 elements (the 100 bits in the first row) to 1.
         """
         if type(index) is tuple:
-            offset = sum([x*y for (x,y) in zip(index, self.offsets)])
+            offset = sum([x*y for (x,y) in zip(index, self.offsets)]) % len(self.bits)
             if len(index) == self.N:
                 self.bits[offset] = value
             else:
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ class Plane:
             self.bits[index] = value
         else:
             delta = self.offsets[0]
-            offset = index * delta
+            offset = (index * delta) % len(self.bits)
             self.bits[offset:offset+delta] = value
 
     def randomize(self):
@@ -156,6 +156,22 @@ class Plane:
             sequence = bin(random.randrange(0, max_unsigned))[2:]
             self.bits = bitarray(sequence.zfill(max_unsigned))
 
+    def flatten(self, coordinates):
+        """
+        Given coordinates, converts them to flattened value for direct bit access.
+
+        Note this can be used for relative coordinates as well, and negative values
+        are also supported fine.
+        """
+        if len(coordinates) != self.N:
+            raise ValueError("Invalid Coordinates {}".format(coordinates))
+
+        index = 0
+        for i, coor in enumerate(coordinates):
+            index += coor * self.offsets[i]
+
+        return index % len(self.bits)
+
     def matrix(self):
         """
         Convert bitarray into a corresponding numpy matrix.
diff --git a/tests/config_test.py b/tests/config_test.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/tests/neighborhood_test.py b/tests/neighborhood_test.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cc719c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/neighborhood_test.py
@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+from nose.plugins.skip import SkipTest
+
+import os, sys
+sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join('..', 'src'))
+
+import plane
+import numpy as np
+from neighborhood import Neighborhood
+
+
+class TestProperties:
+    """
+
+    """
+    def setUp(self):
+
+        self.neigh2d = Neighborhood(0)
+        self.offsets2d = [(-1, 0), (1, 0)]
+        self.plane2d = plane.Plane((100, 100))
+        self.neigh2d.populate(self.offsets2d, self.plane2d)
+
+        self.neigh3d = Neighborhood(0)
+        self.offsets3d = [(-1, 0, 0), (1, 0, 1)]
+        self.plane3d = plane.Plane((100, 100, 100))
+        self.neigh3d.populate(self.offsets3d, self.plane3d)
+
+    def test_neighborhoodLength(self):
+        """
+        Neighborhood Length.
+        """
+        assert len(self.neigh2d.neighbors) == len(self.offsets2d)
+        assert len(self.neigh3d.neighbors) == len(self.offsets3d)
+
+    def test_neighborhoodValues(self):
+        """
+        Neighborhood Values.
+        """
+        self.plane2d[(1, 0)] = 1
+        self.plane2d[(99, 0)] = 1
+        self.neigh2d.neighbors = [1, 1]
+
+        self.plane3d[(1, 0, 1)] = 1
+        self.plane3d[(99, 0, 0)] = 1
+        self.neigh3d.neighbors = [1, 1, 1]
+
+    @SkipTest
+    def test_neighborhoodTotal(self):
+        """
+        Neighborhood Total.
+        """
+        n1 = Neighborhood.get_neighborhoods(self.plane2d, self.offsets2d)
+        n2 = Neighborhood.get_neighborhoods(self.plane3d, self.offsets3d)
+        assert len(n1) == len(self.plane2d.bits)
+        assert len(n2) == len(self.plane3d.bits)
+
+    @SkipTest
+    def test_neighboorhoodMembers(self):
+        """
+        Neighborhood Members.
+        """
+        n1 = Neighborhood.get_neighborhoods(self.plane2d, self.offsets2d)
+        n2 = Neighborhood.get_neighborhoods(self.plane3d, self.offsets3d)
+        for n in n1:
+            assert len(n.neighbors) == len(self.offsets2d)
+        for n in n2:
+            assert len(n.neighbors) == len(self.offsets3d)
+
+    def test_neighborhoodPlaneTotalInit(self):
+        """
+        Plane Total Initialization.
+        """
+        t1 = Neighborhood.get_totals(self.plane2d, self.offsets2d)
+        t2 = Neighborhood.get_totals(self.plane3d, self.offsets3d)
+        assert len(t1) == np.product(self.plane2d.shape)
+        assert len(t2) == np.product(self.plane3d.shape)
+        assert np.count_nonzero(np.array(t1)) == 0
+        assert np.count_nonzero(np.array(t2)) == 0
+
+    def test_neighborhoodPlaneTotalCount(self):
+        """
+        Plane Total Count.
+        """
+        self.plane2d[10] = 1;
+        self.plane3d[10] = 1;
+        t1 = Neighborhood.get_totals(self.plane2d, self.offsets2d)
+        t2 = Neighborhood.get_totals(self.plane3d, self.offsets3d)
+        assert np.count_nonzero(np.array(t1)) == 200
+        assert np.count_nonzero(np.array(t2)) == 20000
+
+
diff --git a/tests/plane_test.py b/tests/plane_test.py
index a103fc9..a1f4a49 100644
--- a/tests/plane_test.py
+++ b/tests/plane_test.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import os, sys
 sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join('..', 'src'))
 
 import plane
+import numpy as np
 
 
 class TestProperties:
@@ -19,6 +20,13 @@ class TestProperties:
         assert len(self.plane2d.bits) == 100 * 100
         assert len(self.plane3d.bits) == 100 * 100 * 100
 
+    def test_offsets(self):
+        """
+        Offsets.
+        """
+        assert list(self.plane2d.offsets) == [100, 1]
+        assert list(self.plane3d.offsets) == [10000, 100, 1]
+
     def test_randomize(self):
         """
         Randomization.
@@ -94,3 +102,14 @@ class TestIndexing:
         for i in range(10):
             assert self.plane2d[0][i] == 1
 
+    def test_flatten(self):
+        """
+        Flatten indices.
+        """
+        assert self.plane2d.flatten((0, 0)) == 0
+        assert self.plane2d.flatten((-1, 0)) == 9900
+        assert self.plane2d.flatten((1, 1)) == 101
+        assert self.plane3d.flatten((0, 0, 0)) == 0
+        assert self.plane3d.flatten((-1, 0, 0)) == 990000
+        assert self.plane3d.flatten((1, 1, 1)) == 10101
+