WIP
euclid aims to provide a comprehensive interface to the CGAL library for computational geometry. At its core it provides new vector types for all of the geometric primitives defined for the 2 and 3 dimensional kernel. These vector types maps directly into C++ structures ensuring that no conversion back and forth between R and C++ takes place. This, in turn, ensures that geometric calculations remain exact and free of any rounding errors or issues with floating point arithmetic.
The plan is to gradually expand the algorithms that euclid support once the vector foundation is established
For now, euclid can be installed from github using remotes:
# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("thomasp85/euclid")The package is still quite shallow but have rudimentary support for points and circles
library(euclid)
#>
#> Attaching package: 'euclid'
#> The following object is masked from 'package:stats':
#>
#> line
# Construct some exact numbers
random_num <- exact_numeric(runif(20, max = 10))
# Exact numbers behave much like R numerics (though not everything is possible)
random_num[1:5]
#> <Vector of exact numerics>
#> [1] 2.655087 3.721239 5.728534 9.082078 2.016819
max(random_num)
#> <Vector of exact numerics>
#> [1] 9.919061
sort(random_num)
#> <Vector of exact numerics>
#> [1] 0.6178627 1.7655675 2.0168193 2.0597457 2.6550866 3.7212390 3.8003518
#> [8] 3.8410372 4.9769924 5.7285336 6.2911404 6.6079779 6.8702285 7.1761851
#> [15] 7.6984142 7.7744522 8.9838968 9.0820779 9.4467527 9.9190609
random_num[2] * 10
#> <Vector of exact numerics>
#> [1] 37.21239
random_num[5] + random_num[16]
#> <Vector of exact numerics>
#> [1] 6.993812
cumsum(random_num)
#> <Vector of exact numerics>
#> [1] 2.655087 6.376326 12.104859 21.186937 23.203756 32.187653
#> [7] 41.634406 48.242384 54.533524 55.151387 57.211133 58.976700
#> [13] 65.846929 69.687966 77.386380 82.363373 89.539558 99.458619
#> [19] 103.258970 111.033423
# With exact numbers we can construct our geometries
# 2 dimensions
p1 <- point(random_num[1:5], random_num[6:10])
p1
#> <Vector of points in 2 dimensions>
#> [1] <x:2.66, y:8.98> <x:3.72, y:9.45> <x:5.73, y:6.61> <x:9.08, y:6.29>
#> [5] <x:2.02, y:0.618>
# circle based on center and radius
circle(p1, random_num[11:15])
#> <Vector of circles in 2 dimensions>
#> [1] <x:2.66, y:8.98, r2:4.24> <x:3.72, y:9.45, r2:3.12>
#> [3] <x:5.73, y:6.61, r2:47.2> <x:9.08, y:6.29, r2:14.8>
#> [5] <x:2.02, y:0.618, r2:59.3>
# circle based on 2 points
circle(p1, point(random_num[11:15], random_num[16:20]))
#> <Vector of circles in 2 dimensions>
#> [1] <x:2.36, y:6.98, r2:4.1> <x:2.74, y:8.31, r2:2.25>
#> [3] <x:6.3, y:8.26, r2:3.07> <x:6.46, y:5.05, r2:8.42>
#> [5] <x:4.86, y:4.2, r2:20.9>
# 3 dimensions
point(random_num[1:5], random_num[6:10], random_num[11:15])
#> <Vector of points in 3 dimensions>
#> [1] <x:2.66, y:8.98, z:2.06> <x:3.72, y:9.45, z:1.77> <x:5.73, y:6.61, z:6.87>
#> [4] <x:9.08, y:6.29, z:3.84> <x:2.02, y:0.618, z:7.7>Please note that the euclid project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.