from __future__ import division from math import sqrt from itertools import count from pprint import pprint as pp try: from itertools import izip as zip except: pass # Remove duplicates and sort, largest first. circles = sorted(set([ # xcenter ycenter radius (1.6417233788, 1.6121789534, 0.0848270516), (-1.4944608174, 1.2077959613, 1.1039549836), (0.6110294452, -0.6907087527, 0.9089162485), (0.3844862411, 0.2923344616, 0.2375743054), (-0.2495892950, -0.3832854473, 1.0845181219), (1.7813504266, 1.6178237031, 0.8162655711), (-0.1985249206, -0.8343333301, 0.0538864941), (-1.7011985145, -0.1263820964, 0.4776976918), (-0.4319462812, 1.4104420482, 0.7886291537), (0.2178372997, -0.9499557344, 0.0357871187), (-0.6294854565, -1.3078893852, 0.7653357688), (1.7952608455, 0.6281269104, 0.2727652452), (1.4168575317, 1.0683357171, 1.1016025378), (1.4637371396, 0.9463877418, 1.1846214562), (-0.5263668798, 1.7315156631, 1.4428514068), (-1.2197352481, 0.9144146579, 1.0727263474), (-0.1389358881, 0.1092805780, 0.7350208828), (1.5293954595, 0.0030278255, 1.2472867347), (-0.5258728625, 1.3782633069, 1.3495508831), (-0.1403562064, 0.2437382535, 1.3804956588), (0.8055826339, -0.0482092025, 0.3327165165), (-0.6311979224, 0.7184578971, 0.2491045282), (1.4685857879, -0.8347049536, 1.3670667538), (-0.6855727502, 1.6465021616, 1.0593087096), (0.0152957411, 0.0638919221, 0.9771215985), ]), key=lambda x: -x[-1]) def vdcgen(base=2): 'Van der Corput sequence generator' for n in count(): vdc, denom = 0,1 while n: denom *= base n, remainder = divmod(n, base) vdc += remainder / denom yield vdc def vdc_2d(): 'Two dimensional Van der Corput sequence generator' for x, y in zip(vdcgen(base=2), vdcgen(base=3)): yield x, y def bounding_box(circles): 'Return minx, maxx, miny, maxy' return (min(x - r for x,y,r in circles), max(x + r for x,y,r in circles), min(y - r for x,y,r in circles), max(y + r for x,y,r in circles) ) def circle_is_in_circle(c1, c2): x1, y1, r1 = c1 x2, y2, r2 = c2 return sqrt((x2 - x1)**2 + (y2 - y1)**2) <= r1 - r2 def remove_covered_circles(circles): 'Takes circles in decreasing radius order. Removes those covered by others' covered = [] for i, c1 in enumerate(circles): eliminate = [c2 for c2 in circles[i+1:] if circle_is_in_circle(c1, c2)] if eliminate: covered += [c1, eliminate] for c in eliminate: circles.remove(c) #pp(covered) def main(circles): print('Originally %i circles' % len(circles)) print('Bounding box: %r' % (bounding_box(circles),)) remove_covered_circles(circles) print(' down to %i due to some being wholly covered by others' % len(circles)) minx, maxx, miny, maxy = bounding_box(circles) # Shift to 0,0 and compute r**2 once circles2 = [(x - minx, y - miny, r*r) for x, y, r in circles] scalex, scaley = abs(maxx - minx), abs(maxy - miny) pcount, inside, last = 0, 0, '' for px, py in vdc_2d(): pcount += 1 px *= scalex; py *= scaley if any((px-cx)**2 + (py-cy)**2 <= cr2 for cx, cy, cr2 in circles2): inside += 1 if not pcount % 100000: area = (inside/pcount) * scalex * scaley print('Points: %8i, Area estimate: %r' % (pcount, area)) # Hack to check if precision OK this = '%.4f' % area if this == last: break else: last = this print('The value has settled to %s' % this) if __name__ == '__main__': main(circles)