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### Intersection of a hyperplane with a polytope (intersection in 9D)

Hi,

I have a hyperplane given by equation:

2/3x1 + 2/3x2 + 2/3x3 - 1/3x4 - 1/3x5 - 1/3x6 - 1/3x7 -1/3x8 - 1/3*x9 = 1

and a polytope with nine vertices:

P = [[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], [-8/9, 1/9, 1/9, 1/9, 1/9, 1/9, 1/9, 1/9, 1/9], [-7/9, -7/9, 2/9, 2/9, 2/9, 2/9, 2/9, 2/9, 2/9], [-2/3, -2/3, -2/3, 1/3, 1/3, 1/3, 1/3, 1/3, 1/3], [-5/9, -5/9, -5/9, -5/9, 4/9, 4/9, 4/9, 4/9, 4/9], [-4/9, -4/9, -4/9, -4/9, -4/9, 5/9, 5/9, 5/9, 5/9], [-1/3, -1/3, -1/3, -1/3, -1/3, -1/3, 2/3, 2/3, 2/3], [-2/9, -2/9, -2/9, -2/9, -2/9, -2/9, -2/9, 7/9, 7/9], [-1/9, -1/9, -1/9, -1/9, -1/9, -1/9, -1/9, -1/9, 8/9]]

Each vertex in this polytope is connected to other eight vertices with a line.

I have tried with the following approach but I am unable to get the correct result.

First I created a polyhedron from the equation of the hyperplane as follows:

Hplane1 = Polyhedron(eqns=[(-3,2,2,2,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1)])

Next I used this code to find the intersection between hyperplane and the line connected by every two vertices of the Polytope 'P'

for i in range(len(P)):

for j in range(len(P)):

if i != j:

a = Polyhedron( vertices = [P[i], P[j]])

b = a.intersection(Hplane1)

print(b)


I know the this hyperplane and the polytope have some intersection points but I am unable to calculate them. Any help/suggestion will be highly appreciated.

Thanks

### Intersection of a hyperplane with a polytope (intersection in 9D)

Hi,

I have a hyperplane given by equation:

2/3x1 + 2/3x2 + 2/3x3 - 1/3x4 - 1/3x5 - 1/3x6 - 1/3x7 -1/3x8 - 1/3*x9 = 1

and a polytope with nine vertices:

P = [[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], [-8/9, 1/9, 1/9, 1/9, 1/9, 1/9, 1/9, 1/9, 1/9], [-7/9, -7/9, 2/9, 2/9, 2/9, 2/9, 2/9, 2/9, 2/9], [-2/3, -2/3, -2/3, 1/3, 1/3, 1/3, 1/3, 1/3, 1/3], [-5/9, -5/9, -5/9, -5/9, 4/9, 4/9, 4/9, 4/9, 4/9], [-4/9, -4/9, -4/9, -4/9, -4/9, 5/9, 5/9, 5/9, 5/9], [-1/3, -1/3, -1/3, -1/3, -1/3, -1/3, 2/3, 2/3, 2/3], [-2/9, -2/9, -2/9, -2/9, -2/9, -2/9, -2/9, 7/9, 7/9], [-1/9, -1/9, -1/9, -1/9, -1/9, -1/9, -1/9, -1/9, 8/9]]

Each vertex in this polytope is connected to other eight vertices with a line.

I have tried with the following approach but I am unable to get the correct result.

First I created a polyhedron from the equation of the hyperplane as follows:

Hplane1 = Polyhedron(eqns=[(-3,2,2,2,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1)])

Next I used this code to find the intersection between hyperplane and the line connected by every two vertices of the Polytope 'P'

for i j in range(len(P)):

 for j i in range(len(P)):

if i != j:

a = Polyhedron( vertices = [P[i], P[j]])

b = a.intersection(Hplane1)

print(b)


I know the this hyperplane and the polytope have some intersection points but I am unable to calculate them. Any help/suggestion will be highly appreciated.

Thanks