pc4BIMS : Pack Circles for BIMS

pc4bims is an application software in Python 3 to create circle packing in closed polygons.

Features

• Free software: BSD-2-Clause.
• Documentation: https://pc4bims.readthedocs.io.
• PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pc4bims

Requirements

The code was written in Python 3. The packages numpy, scipy, matplotlib and triangle are required for using pc4bims. All of them are downloadable from the PyPI repository by opening a terminal and typing the following code lines:

pip install numpy
pip install scipy
pip install matplotlib
pip install triangle

Installation

To install pc4bims open a terminal and type:

pip install pc4bims

Example

To produce the plot shown above execute the following script

from numpy import array
from pc4bims.slope import NaturalSlope
from pc4bims.circlepacking import CirclePacking as CP
surfaceCoords = array([[-2.4900, 18.1614],
                       [0.1022, 17.8824],
                       [1.6975, 17.2845],
                       [3.8909, 15.7301],
                       [5.8963, 14.3090],
                       [8.1183, 13.5779],
                       [9.8663, 13.0027],
                       [13.2865, 3.6058],
                       [20.2865, 3.6058],
                       [21.4347, 3.3231],
                       [22.2823, 2.7114],
                       [23.4751, 2.2252],
                       [24.6522, 1.2056],
                       [25.1701, 0.2488]])
slopeGeometry = NaturalSlope(surfaceCoords)
boundCoords = slopeGeometry.boundCoords
circlePacking = CP(boundCoords, 2)
circlePacking.plot()