I have the strange problem, that the intersection of planes in SymPy works with simple examples, but fails for one with more complicated coordinates. I post both a simple example that works, and the one that fails. As the Povray images show, I have three planes that go through vertices of a polyhedron and are perpendicular to the line through the respective vertex and the center. I would like to calculate the point where these planes intersect, but SymPy gives wrong results for the lines in which pairs of planes intersect. In the images the correct intersections can be seen as short lines (created with CSG intersection). The long lines parallel to them are the ones calculated by SymPy.
Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug in SymPy?
More images are here: http://paste.watchduck.net/1712/sympy_planes/
Does anyone know how to put many images on a page, without being kept from posting the question? ("Your post appears to contain code that is not properly formatted as code.")
Code:
from sympy import Point3D, Plane
pointR = Point3D(1/2, 0, 1/2)
pointG = Point3D(1, 0, 0)
planeR = Plane(pointR, pointR)
planeG = Plane(pointG, pointG)
print('\n######## Intersection of the planes:')
lineRG = planeR.intersection(planeG)[0] # yellow
print(lineRG)
print('\n######## Intersection of plane and contained line returns the line:')
lineRG_again = planeR.intersection(lineRG)[0]
print(lineRG_again.equals(lineRG))
Output:
######## Intersection of the planes:
Line3D(Point3D(1, 0, 0), Point3D(1, 1/2, 0))
######## Intersection of plane and contained line returns the line:
True
Code:
from sympy import sqrt, Point3D, Plane
pointR = Point3D(-1, 1 + sqrt(2), -2*sqrt(2) - 1)
pointG = Point3D(-sqrt(2) - 1, 1, -2*sqrt(2) - 1)
pointB = Point3D(-1, -sqrt(2) - 1, -2*sqrt(2) - 1)
planeR = Plane(pointR, pointR)
planeG = Plane(pointG, pointG)
planeB = Plane(pointB, pointB)
print('\n######## Intersections of the planes:')
lineRG = planeR.intersection(planeG)[0] # yellow
lineRB = planeR.intersection(planeB)[0] # magenta
lineGB = planeG.intersection(planeB)[0] # cyan
print(lineRG)
print(lineRB)
print(lineGB)
print('\n######## Lines RG (yellow) and GB (cyan) intersect:')
print(lineRG.intersection(lineGB))
print('\n######## But line RB (magenta) is skew to both of them:')
print(lineRB.intersection(lineRG))
print(lineRB.intersection(lineGB))
print('\n######## Intersection of plane and contained line fails:')
lineRG_again = planeR.intersection(lineRG)
Output:
######## Intersections of the planes:
Line3D(Point3D(-1, 1, 0), Point3D((1 + sqrt(2))*(-2*sqrt(2) - 1) + 2*sqrt(2), -2*sqrt(2) + (-2*sqrt(2) - 1)*(-sqrt(2) - 1), -1 - (1 + sqrt(2))*(-sqrt(2) - 1)))
Line3D(Point3D(-1, 0, 0), Point3D((1 + sqrt(2))*(-2*sqrt(2) - 1) - (-2*sqrt(2) - 1)*(-sqrt(2) - 1) - 1, 0, 2 + 2*sqrt(2)))
Line3D(Point3D(-1, 1, 0), Point3D(-(-2*sqrt(2) - 1)*(-sqrt(2) - 1) - 2*sqrt(2) - 2, -(-2*sqrt(2) - 1)*(-sqrt(2) - 1) + 2 + 2*sqrt(2), 1 + (-sqrt(2) - 1)**2))
######## Lines RG (yellow) and GB (cyan) intersect:
[Point3D(-1, 1, 0)]
######## But line RB (magenta) is skew to both of them:
[]
[]
######## Intersection of plane and contained line fails:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "planes2.py", line 47, in <module>
lineRG_again = planeR.intersection(lineRG)
File "/home/tilman/Code/024_polyhedron/env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/sympy/geometry/plane.py", line 390, in intersection
p = a.subs(t, c[0])
File "/home/tilman/Code/024_polyhedron/env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/sympy/core/basic.py", line 916, in subs
rv = rv._subs(old, new, **kwargs)
File "/home/tilman/Code/024_polyhedron/env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/sympy/core/cache.py", line 93, in wrapper
retval = cfunc(*args, **kwargs)
File "/home/tilman/Code/024_polyhedron/env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/sympy/core/basic.py", line 1030, in _subs
rv = fallback(self, old, new)
File "/home/tilman/Code/024_polyhedron/env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/sympy/core/basic.py", line 1007, in fallback
rv = self.func(*args)
File "/home/tilman/Code/024_polyhedron/env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/sympy/geometry/point.py", line 1104, in __new__
args = Point(*args, **kwargs)
File "/home/tilman/Code/024_polyhedron/env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/sympy/geometry/point.py", line 159, in __new__
raise ValueError('Imaginary coordinates are not permitted.')
ValueError: Imaginary coordinates are not permitted.
Images:
After installing the development version of SymPy (pip install git+https://github.com/sympy/sympy.git
) I get the correct results:
######## Intersections of pairs of planes:
Line3D(Point3D(-7 + sqrt(2)/2, -sqrt(2)/2 + 7, 0), Point3D((1 + sqrt(2))*(-2*sqrt(2) - 1) - 6 + 5*sqrt(2)/2, -5*sqrt(2)/2 + 6 + (-2*sqrt(2) - 1)*(-sqrt(2) - 1), -1 - (1 + sqrt(2))*(-sqrt(2) - 1)))
Line3D(Point3D(-13 - 6*sqrt(2), 0, 0), Point3D(-13 + (1 + sqrt(2))*(-2*sqrt(2) - 1) - (-2*sqrt(2) - 1)*(-sqrt(2) - 1) - 6*sqrt(2), 0, 2 + 2*sqrt(2)))
Line3D(Point3D(-13/2 - 3*sqrt(2), -7*sqrt(2)/2 + 1/2, 0), Point3D(-(-2*sqrt(2) - 1)*(-sqrt(2) - 1) - 15/2 - 5*sqrt(2), -(-2*sqrt(2) - 1)*(-sqrt(2) - 1) - 3*sqrt(2)/2 + 3/2, 1 + (-sqrt(2) - 1)**2))
######## Intersection of all planes:
[Point3D(0, 0, -20*sqrt(2)/7 - 11/7)]
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