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

[Ralf Gommers]

On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 4:05 PM Andrew Hynes <andrewjhynes at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Ralf,
>
> Thanks for getting back to me.
>
> 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.
>>
>
> From what I can see, there is no overlap between scipy.spatial functions
> and those in my package. Do you think my code could be added to
> scipy.spatial?
>

I'm not sure. Features like the intersections between planes seems to be
similar in nature to the scipy.spatial.rotation or
https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy-0.19.1/reference/generated/scipy.spatial.HalfspaceIntersection.html.
I'm not an expert though and don't have much of a vision what does and does
not belong in scipy.spatial. So I'll let others answer that question.

Cheers,
Ralf



> I'd be happy to go that route instead of maintaining a scikit.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew
>
> On Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 4:20 AM Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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