gerobust 0.1.2

Extension in C for incircles tests (2D/3D)

# gerobust — Robust Geometry
Python extension of the C implementation of robust and quick incircles tests,
produced by [Janathan Richard Shewchuk](https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~quake/robust.html) and explained in its paper *Robust Adaptive Floating-Point Geometric Predicates*.

## usage example
(see more in [tests](gerobust/test/) and [examples](examples/))



## installation

pip install gerobust


## links
[github](http://github.com/aluriak/gerobust) and [pypi](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/gerobust)


## Floating-point and compiler
Because the technics used in the C code needs the compiler to work with the
IEEE 754 floating-point standard.

By looking about it in the web, i found [the gcc wiki](https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/FloatingPointMath)
that seems to get its full support (without micro optimization that could kill the C implementation)
with the `-frounding-math -fsignaling-nans` options or the `#pragma STDC FENV ACCESS ON` pragma.


## Bibliography
Abstract and citation reproduced below.

Robust Adaptive Floating-Point Geometric Predicates

Jonathan Richard Shewchuk
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213

Fast C implementations of four geometric predicates, the 2D and 3D orientation
and incircle tests, are publicly available. Their inputs are ordinary single
or double precision floating-point numbers. They owe their speed to two
features. First, they employ new fast algorithms for arbitrary precision
arithmetic that have a strong advantage over other software techniques in
computations that manipulate values of extended but small precision. Second,
they are adaptive; their running time depends on the degree of uncertainty of
the result, and is usually small. These algorithms work on computers whose
floating-point arithmetic uses radix two and exact rounding, including machines
that comply with the IEEE 754 floating-point standard. Timings of the
predicates, in isolation and embedded in 2D and 3D Delaunay triangulation
programs, verify their effectiveness.


Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), pages 141-150, ACM, May 1996. PostScript (310k).


Paper available through the URL
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jrs/papers/robust-predicates.ps


For additional details and associated software, see the Web page
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~quake/robust.html