How does one use the qhull optional package?
Has anyone used the qhull optional package? I'm not so sure on how to use it. Is there a tutorial on this?
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First, you can install it by typing:
$ sage -i qhull
Then, i do not think that there in an interface with qhull inside Sage. So, you have to use it from a shell, as if you installed it on your OS:
$ sage -sh
To get help and examples, just type:
(sage-sh) user@machine:~$ qhull
And then, you can try one of the examples:
(sage-sh) user@machine:~$ rbox y 1000 W0 | qhull
Convex hull of 1004 points in 3-d:
Number of vertices: 4
Number of facets: 4
Statistics for: rbox y 1000 W0 | qhull
Number of points processed: 4
Number of hyperplanes created: 5
Number of distance tests for qhull: 11001
CPU seconds to compute hull (after input): 0
To get informations about rbox, just type:
(sage-sh) user@machine:~$ rbox
EDIT : qhull is shipped with scipy (and also with matplotlib from version 1.4), so you could benefit from their Cython interface to use qhull features within Sage (Delaunay triangulation, Voronoi tesselation, convex hull), see this page.
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I'll expand on tmonteil's last comment: there is an interface to qhull included on scipy!
For example, this code computes the hull of a random set of 2D points:
import numpy as np
from scipy.spatial import ConvexHull
points = np.random.rand(30, 2) # 30 random points in 2-D
hull = ConvexHull(points)
and this code plots it:
my_plot = point2d(points)
for simplex in hull.simplices:
my_plot += line2d([points[v,:] for v in simplex])
my_plot
While this code computes the hull of a random set of 3D points:
import numpy as np
from scipy.spatial import ConvexHull
points = np.random.rand(30, 3) # 30 random points in 3-D
hull = ConvexHull(points)
and this code plots it:
my_plot = point3d(points)
for simplex in hull.simplices:
my_plot += line3d([points[simplex[-1],:]]+[points[v,:] for v in simplex])
my_plot
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Asked: 2013-06-18 21:22:00 +0100
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Last updated: Jan 26 '17
Sorry. Deleted my post. I misread your question about installing, whereas you asked about *using*.