Reference convention for an array of women

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In a photo of a line of women its widely accepted that you go from left to right e.g. if the first one is the hottest you'd refer to her as 1.

The problem is when we generalise to arrays of women I'm not sure what the convention is for example if I think the 3rd one in the row below the top do we:
1) regard them as matrix entries and say she's (2,3)
2) view them as points on