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

[Ralf Gommers]

On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 2:10 AM Andrew Hynes <andrewjhynes at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
> Ok, I will ask. Should I start a new thread on this mailing list or make a
> pull request on github?
>

Neither at this point I think, this conversation will be fine.

Tyler, Nikolay, Pauli, others - any comment?

Cheers,
Ralf


> Andrew
>
> On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 2:07 PM Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 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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