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# Delaunay

class scipy.spatial.Delaunay(points, furthest_site=False, incremental=False, qhull_options=None)

  Delaunay tessellation in N dimensions.

  Added in version 0.9.

  Parameters:
    points ndarray of floats, shape (npoints, ndim)

      Coordinates of points to triangulate

    furthest_site bool, optional

      Whether to compute a furthest-site Delaunay triangulation. Default: False

      Added in version 0.12.0.

    incremental bool, optional

      Allow adding new points incrementally. This takes up some additional resources.

    qhull_options str, optional

      Additional options to pass to Qhull. See Qhull manual for details. Option “Qt” is always enabled. Default:”Qbb Qc Qz Qx Q12” for ndim > 4 and “Qbb Qc Qz Q12” otherwise. Incremental mode omits “Qz”.

      Added in version 0.12.0.

  Attributes:
    points ndarray of double, shape (npoints, ndim)

      Coordinates of input points.

    simplices ndarray of ints, shape (nsimplex, ndim+1)

      Indices of the points forming the simplices in the triangulation. For 2-D, the points are oriented counterclockwise.

    neighbors ndarray of ints, shape (nsimplex, ndim+1)

      Indices of neighbor simplices for each simplex. The kth neighbor is opposite to the kth vertex. For simplices at the boundary, -1 denotes no neighbor.

    equations ndarray of double, shape (nsimplex, ndim+2)

      [normal, offset] forming the hyperplane equation of the facet on the paraboloid (see Qhull documentation for more).

    paraboloid_scale, paraboloid_shift float

      Scale and shift for the extra paraboloid dimension (see Qhull documentation for more).

    `transform` ndarray of double, shape (nsimplex, ndim+1, ndim)

      Affine transform from `x` to the barycentric coordinates `c`.

    `vertex_to_simplex` ndarray of int, shape (npoints,)

      Lookup array, from a vertex, to some simplex which it is a part of.

    `convex_hull` ndarray of int, shape (nfaces, ndim)

      Vertices of facets forming the convex hull of the point set.

    coplanar ndarray of int, shape (ncoplanar, 3)

      Indices of coplanar points and the corresponding indices of the nearest facet and the nearest vertex. Coplanar points are input points which were not included in the triangulation due to numerical precision issues.

      If option “Qc” is not specified, this list is not computed.

      Added in version 0.12.0.

    `vertex_neighbor_vertices` tuple of two ndarrays of int; (indptr, indices)

      Neighboring vertices of vertices.

    furthest_site

      True if this was a furthest site triangulation and False if not.

      Added in version 1.4.0.

  Methods

  `add_points`(points[, restart]) | Process a set of additional new points.
  `close`() | Finish incremental processing.
  `find_simplex`(self, xi[, bruteforce, tol]) | Find the simplices containing the given points.
  `lift_points`(self, x) | Lift points to the Qhull paraboloid.
  `plane_distance`(self, xi) | Compute hyperplane distances to the point xi from all simplices.

  Raises:
    QhullError

      Raised when Qhull encounters an error condition, such as geometrical degeneracy when options to resolve are not enabled.

    ValueError

      Raised if an incompatible array is given as input.

  Notes

  The tessellation is computed using the Qhull library Qhull library.

  Note

  Unless you pass in the Qhull option “QJ”, Qhull does not guarantee that each input point appears as a vertex in the Delaunay triangulation. Omitted points are listed in the coplanar attribute.

  Examples

  Triangulation of a set of points:

      >>> import numpy as np
      >>> points = np.array([[0, 0], [0, 1.1], [1, 0], [1, 1]])
      >>> from scipy.spatial import Delaunay
      >>> tri = Delaunay(points)

  We can plot it:

      >>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
      >>> plt.triplot(points[:,0], points[:,1], tri.simplices)
      >>> plt.plot(points[:,0], points[:,1], 'o')
      >>> plt.show()

  Point indices and coordinates for the two triangles forming the triangulation:

      >>> tri.simplices
      array([[2, 3, 0],                 # may vary
             [3, 1, 0]], dtype=int32)

  Note that depending on how rounding errors go, the simplices may be in a different order than above.

      >>> points[tri.simplices]
      array([[[ 1. ,  0. ],            # may vary
              [ 1. ,  1. ],
              [ 0. ,  0. ]],
             [[ 1. ,  1. ],
              [ 0. ,  1.1],
              [ 0. ,  0. ]]])

  Triangle 0 is the only neighbor of triangle 1, and it’s opposite to vertex 1 of triangle 1:

      >>> tri.neighbors[1]
      array([-1,  0, -1], dtype=int32)
      >>> points[tri.simplices[1,1]]
      array([ 0. ,  1.1])

  We can find out which triangle points are in:

      >>> p = np.array([(0.1, 0.2), (1.5, 0.5), (0.5, 1.05)])
      >>> tri.find_simplex(p)
      array([ 1, -1, 1], dtype=int32)

  The returned integers in the array are the indices of the simplex the corresponding point is in. If -1 is returned, the point is in no simplex. Be aware that the shortcut in the following example only works correctly for valid points as invalid points result in -1 which is itself a valid index for the last simplex in the list.

      >>> p_valids = np.array([(0.1, 0.2), (0.5, 1.05)])
      >>> tri.simplices[tri.find_simplex(p_valids)]
      array([[3, 1, 0],                 # may vary
             [3, 1, 0]], dtype=int32)

  We can also compute barycentric coordinates in triangle 1 for these points:

      >>> b = tri.transform[1,:2].dot(np.transpose(p - tri.transform[1,2]))
      >>> np.c_[np.transpose(b), 1 - b.sum(axis=0)]
      array([[ 0.1       ,  0.09090909,  0.80909091],
             [ 1.5       , -0.90909091,  0.40909091],
             [ 0.5       ,  0.5       ,  0.        ]])

  The coordinates for the first point are all positive, meaning it is indeed inside the triangle. The third point is on an edge, hence its null third coordinate.