[SciPy-Dev] Adding alpha complexes/filtrations to scipy.spatial?

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 18 17:47:54 EDT 2019


I have wanted this as well, hopefully with some reasonable computational
complexity

On Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 3:54 PM Tyler Reddy <tyler.je.reddy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is this similar to "alpha shape:"
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_shape
>
> I know I've been wanting to have that in, but not sure if the community
> would agree. Probably some design decisions to think about, but a useful
> alternative to convex hull seems like an interesting idea for some
> applications.
>
> On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 07:19, Hamilton, Wesley <wham at live.unc.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have some code that computes alpha complexes of a point cloud , and I
>> think it would be a good contribution to the scipy.spatial library. I've
>> looked around and there aren't any other implementations of an alpha
>> complex construction (besides a short tutorial from PyPlot).
>>
>> My question is: would this contribution be welcome? I need to formalize
>> the documentation, and add the construction for weighted alpha complexes,
>> but otherwise everything's there.
>>
>> Best,
>> Wesley
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