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

[Andrew Hynes]

>
> 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?

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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