[SciPy-Dev] [ANN] Release of scikit-spatial package

[Ralf Gommers]

Hi Andrew,


On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 11:29 PM Andrew Hynes <andrewjhynes at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm completing my master's in computer engineering, and it involved
> writing several functions for computations in 3D space, such as finding the
> line of best fit from multiple points and projecting a point onto a line. I
> decided to package my code into 'scikit-spatial', which provides objects
> for points, vectors, lines and planes, and computations between them.
>

Looks interesting.


> I know SymPy has similar objects in their geometry package, but my package
> is based on NumPy for the objects and computations. The Point and Vector
> objects are actually subclasses of the NumPy ndarray.
>

I'd also be interested in the comparison between scikit-spatial and
scipy.spatial. It would probably be useful if you added that, as well as
the SymPy comparison, to the readme of your repo and/or the first page of
your docs.


> It's my first Python package, so any feedback or contributions would be
> greatly appreciated. The code is at
> https://github.com/ajhynes7/scikit-spatial.
>
> I apologize if this is the wrong mailing list to post this. The "Scikits"
> page (https://www.scipy.org/scikits.html) just says "It can however be
> useful to let people know about it by discussing the new project e.g. on
> the Scipy mailing lists.", but it doesn't specify which one. Maybe the
> website can be edited to specify a mailing list for future reference?
>

Yeah, that website needs some maintenance. An announcement and first
discussion here is fine. If there's regular discussion happening going
forward, then it would be good to set up a dedicated list (very easy with
Google Groups for exampple).

Cheers,
Ralf


> Thanks,
>
> Andrew Hynes
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