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+{#
+ basic/layout.html
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+ Master layout template for Sphinx themes.
+
+ :copyright: Copyright 2007-2016 by the Sphinx team, see AUTHORS.
+ :license: BSD, see LICENSE for details.
+#}
+{%- block doctype -%}
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
+ "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
+{%- endblock %}
+{%- set reldelim1 = reldelim1 is not defined and ' &raquo;' or reldelim1 %}
+{%- set reldelim2 = reldelim2 is not defined and ' |' or reldelim2 %}
+{%- set render_sidebar = (not embedded) and (not theme_nosidebar|tobool) and
+ (sidebars != []) %}
+{%- set url_root = pathto('', 1) %}
+{# XXX necessary? #}
+{%- if url_root == '#' %}{% set url_root = '' %}{% endif %}
+{%- if not embedded and docstitle %}
+ {%- set titlesuffix = " &mdash; "|safe + docstitle|e %}
+{%- else %}
+ {%- set titlesuffix = "" %}
+{%- endif %}
+
+{%- macro relbar() %}
+ <div class="related" role="navigation" aria-label="related navigation">
+ <h3>{{ _('Navigation') }}</h3>
+ <ul>
+ {%- for rellink in rellinks %}
+ <li class="right" {% if loop.first %}style="margin-right: 10px"{% endif %}>
+ <a href="{{ pathto(rellink[0]) }}" title="{{ rellink[1]|striptags|e }}"
+ {{ accesskey(rellink[2]) }}>{{ rellink[3] }}</a>
+ {%- if not loop.first %}{{ reldelim2 }}{% endif %}</li>
+ {%- endfor %}
+ {%- block rootrellink %}
+ <li class="nav-item nav-item-0"><a href="{{ pathto(master_doc) }}">{{ shorttitle|e }}</a>{{ reldelim1 }}</li>
+ {%- endblock %}
+ {%- for parent in parents %}
+ <li class="nav-item nav-item-{{ loop.index }}"><a href="{{ parent.link|e }}" {% if loop.last %}{{ accesskey("U") }}{% endif %}>{{ parent.title }}</a>{{ reldelim1 }}</li>
+ {%- endfor %}
+ {%- block relbaritems %} {% endblock %}
+ </ul>
+ </div>
+{%- endmacro %}
+
+{%- macro sidebar() %}
+ {%- if render_sidebar %}
+ <div class="sphinxsidebar" role="navigation" aria-label="main navigation">
+ <div class="sphinxsidebarwrapper">
+ {%- block sidebarlogo %}
+ {%- if logo %}
+ <p class="logo"><a href="{{ pathto(master_doc) }}">
+ <img class="logo" src="{{ pathto('_static/' + logo, 1) }}" alt="Logo"/>
+ </a></p>
+ {%- endif %}
+ {%- endblock %}
+ <h2><a href="index.html">GUDHI</a></h2>
+ <h2><a href="fileformats.html">File formats</a></h2>
+ <h2><a href="installation.html">GUDHI installation</a></h2>
+ <h2><a href="citation.html">Acknowledging the GUDHI library</a></h2>
+ <h2><a href="genindex.html">Index</a></h2>
+ <h2><a href="examples.html">Examples</a></h2>
+ {%- if sidebars != None %}
+ {#- new style sidebar: explicitly include/exclude templates #}
+ {%- for sidebartemplate in sidebars %}
+ {%- include sidebartemplate %}
+ {%- endfor %}
+ {%- else %}
+ {#- old style sidebars: using blocks -- should be deprecated #}
+ {%- block sidebartoc %}
+ {%- include "localtoc.html" %}
+ {%- endblock %}
+ {%- block sidebarrel %}
+ {%- include "relations.html" %}
+ {%- endblock %}
+ {%- block sidebarsourcelink %}
+ {%- include "sourcelink.html" %}
+ {%- endblock %}
+ {%- if customsidebar %}
+ {%- include customsidebar %}
+ {%- endif %}
+ {%- block sidebarsearch %}
+ {%- include "searchbox.html" %}
+ {%- endblock %}
+ {%- endif %}
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ {%- endif %}
+{%- endmacro %}
+
+{%- macro script() %}
+ <script type="text/javascript">
+ var DOCUMENTATION_OPTIONS = {
+ URL_ROOT: '{{ url_root }}',
+ VERSION: '{{ release|e }}',
+ COLLAPSE_INDEX: false,
+ FILE_SUFFIX: '{{ '' if no_search_suffix else file_suffix }}',
+ HAS_SOURCE: {{ has_source|lower }}
+ };
+ </script>
+ {%- for scriptfile in script_files %}
+ <script type="text/javascript" src="{{ pathto(scriptfile, 1) }}"></script>
+ {%- endfor %}
+{%- endmacro %}
+
+{%- macro css() %}
+<!-- GUDHI website css for header BEGIN -->
+<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://gudhi.inria.fr/assets/css/styles_feeling_responsive.css" />
+<!-- GUDHI website css for header END -->
+ <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ pathto('_static/' + style, 1) }}" type="text/css" />
+ <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ pathto('_static/pygments.css', 1) }}" type="text/css" />
+ {%- for cssfile in css_files %}
+ <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ pathto(cssfile, 1) }}" type="text/css" />
+ {%- endfor %}
+{%- endmacro %}
+<!-- GUDHI website html class for header BEGIN -->
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="no-js" lang="en">
+<!-- GUDHI website html class for header END -->
+ <head>
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset={{ encoding }}" />
+ {{ metatags }}
+ {%- block htmltitle %}
+ <title>{{ title|striptags|e }}{{ titlesuffix }}</title>
+ {%- endblock %}
+ {{ css() }}
+ {%- if not embedded %}
+ {{ script() }}
+ {%- if use_opensearch %}
+ <link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml"
+ title="{% trans docstitle=docstitle|e %}Search within {{ docstitle }}{% endtrans %}"
+ href="{{ pathto('_static/opensearch.xml', 1) }}"/>
+ {%- endif %}
+ {%- if favicon %}
+ <link rel="shortcut icon" href="{{ pathto('_static/' + favicon, 1) }}"/>
+ {%- endif %}
+ {%- endif %}
+{%- block linktags %}
+ {%- if hasdoc('about') %}
+ <link rel="author" title="{{ _('About these documents') }}" href="{{ pathto('about') }}" />
+ {%- endif %}
+ {%- if hasdoc('genindex') %}
+ <link rel="index" title="{{ _('Index') }}" href="{{ pathto('genindex') }}" />
+ {%- endif %}
+ {%- if hasdoc('search') %}
+ <link rel="search" title="{{ _('Search') }}" href="{{ pathto('search') }}" />
+ {%- endif %}
+ {%- if hasdoc('copyright') %}
+ <link rel="copyright" title="{{ _('Copyright') }}" href="{{ pathto('copyright') }}" />
+ {%- endif %}
+ <link rel="top" title="{{ docstitle|e }}" href="{{ pathto(master_doc) }}" />
+ {%- if parents %}
+ <link rel="up" title="{{ parents[-1].title|striptags|e }}" href="{{ parents[-1].link|e }}" />
+ {%- endif %}
+ {%- if next %}
+ <link rel="next" title="{{ next.title|striptags|e }}" href="{{ next.link|e }}" />
+ {%- endif %}
+ {%- if prev %}
+ <link rel="prev" title="{{ prev.title|striptags|e }}" href="{{ prev.link|e }}" />
+ {%- endif %}
+{%- endblock %}
+{%- block extrahead %} {% endblock %}
+ </head>
+ <body role="document">
+ <!-- GUDHI website header BEGIN -->
+ <div id="navigation" class="sticky">
+ <nav class="top-bar" role="navigation" data-topbar>
+ <ul class="title-area">
+ <li class="name">
+ <h1 class="show-for-small-only"><a href="" class="icon-tree"> GUDHI library</a></h1>
+ </li>
+ <!-- Remove the class "menu-icon" to get rid of menu icon. Take out "Menu" to just have icon alone -->
+ <li class="toggle-topbar menu-icon"><a href="#"><span>Navigation</span></a></li>
+ </ul>
+ <section class="top-bar-section">
+ <ul class="right">
+ <li class="divider"></li>
+ <li><a href="/contact/">Contact</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ <ul class="left">
+ <li><a href="/"> <img src="/assets/img/home.png" alt="&nbsp;&nbsp;GUDHI">&nbsp;&nbsp;GUDHI </a></li>
+ <li class="divider"></li>
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+ <li><a href="/theyaretalkingaboutus/">They are talking about us</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/inaction/">GUDHI in action</a></li>
+ </ul>
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+ <a href="#">Download</a>
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+ <li><a href="/conda/">Conda package</a></li>
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+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li class="divider"></li>
+ <li><a href="/interfaces/">Interfaces</a></li>
+ <li class="divider"></li>
+ </ul>
+ </section>
+ </nav>
+ </div><!-- /#navigation -->
+ <!-- GUDHI website header BEGIN -->
+
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+{%- block header %}{% endblock %}
+
+{%- block relbar1 %}{% endblock %}
+
+{%- block content %}
+ {%- block sidebar1 %} {# possible location for sidebar #} {% endblock %}
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+ <div class="documentwrapper">
+ {%- if render_sidebar %}
+ <div class="bodywrapper">
+ {%- endif %}
+ <div class="body" role="main">
+ {% block body %} {% endblock %}
+ </div>
+ {%- if render_sidebar %}
+ </div>
+ {%- endif %}
+ </div>
+ {%- endblock %}
+
+ {%- block sidebar2 %}{{ sidebar() }}{% endblock %}
+ <div class="clearer"></div>
+ </div>
+{%- endblock %}
+
+{%- block relbar2 %}{% endblock %}
+
+{%- block footer %}
+ <div class="footer" role="contentinfo">
+ {%- if show_copyright %}
+ {%- if hasdoc('copyright') %}
+ {% trans path=pathto('copyright'), copyright=copyright|e %}&copy; <a href="{{ path }}">Copyright</a> {{ copyright }}.{% endtrans %}
+ {%- else %}
+ {% trans copyright=copyright|e %} {{ copyright }}.{% endtrans %}
+ {%- endif %}
+ {%- endif %}
+ {%- if last_updated %}
+ {% trans last_updated=last_updated|e %}Last updated on {{ last_updated }}.{% endtrans %}
+ {%- endif %}
+ {%- if show_sphinx %}
+ {% trans sphinx_version=sphinx_version|e %}Created using <a href="http://sphinx-doc.org/">Sphinx</a> {{ sphinx_version }}.{% endtrans %}
+ {%- endif %}
+ </div>
+{%- endblock %}
+ </body>
+</html>
+
diff --git a/src/python/doc/alpha_complex_ref.rst b/src/python/doc/alpha_complex_ref.rst
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+:orphan:
+
+.. To get rid of WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
+
+==============================
+Alpha complex reference manual
+==============================
+
+.. autoclass:: gudhi.AlphaComplex
+ :members:
+ :undoc-members:
+ :show-inheritance:
+
+ .. automethod:: gudhi.AlphaComplex.__init__
diff --git a/src/python/doc/alpha_complex_sum.inc b/src/python/doc/alpha_complex_sum.inc
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+.. table::
+ :widths: 30 50 20
+
+ +----------------------------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+ | .. figure:: | Alpha complex is a simplicial complex constructed from the finite | :Author: Vincent Rouvreau |
+ | ../../doc/Alpha_complex/alpha_complex_representation.png | cells of a Delaunay Triangulation. | |
+ | :alt: Alpha complex representation | | :Introduced in: GUDHI 2.0.0 |
+ | :figclass: align-center | The filtration value of each simplex is computed as the square of the | |
+ | | circumradius of the simplex if the circumsphere is empty (the simplex | :Copyright: MIT (`GPL v3 </licensing/>`_) |
+ | | is then said to be Gabriel), and as the minimum of the filtration | |
+ | | values of the codimension 1 cofaces that make it not Gabriel | :Requires: `Eigen <installation.html#eigen>`__ :math:`\geq` 3.1.0 and `CGAL <installation.html#cgal>`__ :math:`\geq` 4.11.0 |
+ | | otherwise. All simplices that have a filtration value strictly | |
+ | | greater than a given alpha squared value are not inserted into the | |
+ | | complex. | |
+ | | | |
+ | | This package requires having CGAL version 4.7 or higher (4.8.1 is | |
+ | | advised for better performance). | |
+ +----------------------------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+ | * :doc:`alpha_complex_user` | * :doc:`alpha_complex_ref` |
+ +----------------------------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
diff --git a/src/python/doc/alpha_complex_user.rst b/src/python/doc/alpha_complex_user.rst
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+:orphan:
+
+.. To get rid of WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
+
+Alpha complex user manual
+=========================
+Definition
+----------
+
+.. include:: alpha_complex_sum.inc
+
+Alpha_complex is constructing a :doc:`Simplex_tree <simplex_tree_ref>` using
+`Delaunay Triangulation <http://doc.cgal.org/latest/Triangulation/index.html#Chapter_Triangulations>`_
+:cite:`cgal:hdj-t-15b` from `CGAL <http://www.cgal.org/>`_ (the Computational Geometry Algorithms Library
+:cite:`cgal:eb-15b`).
+
+Remarks
+^^^^^^^
+When Alpha_complex is constructed with an infinite value of :math:`\alpha`, the complex is a Delaunay complex.
+
+Example from points
+-------------------
+
+This example builds the Delaunay triangulation from the given points, and initializes the alpha complex with it:
+
+.. testcode::
+
+ import gudhi
+ alpha_complex = gudhi.AlphaComplex(points=[[1, 1], [7, 0], [4, 6], [9, 6], [0, 14], [2, 19], [9, 17]])
+
+ simplex_tree = alpha_complex.create_simplex_tree()
+ result_str = 'Alpha complex is of dimension ' + repr(simplex_tree.dimension()) + ' - ' + \
+ repr(simplex_tree.num_simplices()) + ' simplices - ' + \
+ repr(simplex_tree.num_vertices()) + ' vertices.'
+ print(result_str)
+ fmt = '%s -> %.2f'
+ for filtered_value in simplex_tree.get_filtration():
+ print(fmt % tuple(filtered_value))
+
+The output is:
+
+.. testoutput::
+
+ Alpha complex is of dimension 2 - 25 simplices - 7 vertices.
+ [0] -> 0.00
+ [1] -> 0.00
+ [2] -> 0.00
+ [3] -> 0.00
+ [4] -> 0.00
+ [5] -> 0.00
+ [6] -> 0.00
+ [2, 3] -> 6.25
+ [4, 5] -> 7.25
+ [0, 2] -> 8.50
+ [0, 1] -> 9.25
+ [1, 3] -> 10.00
+ [1, 2] -> 11.25
+ [1, 2, 3] -> 12.50
+ [0, 1, 2] -> 13.00
+ [5, 6] -> 13.25
+ [2, 4] -> 20.00
+ [4, 6] -> 22.74
+ [4, 5, 6] -> 22.74
+ [3, 6] -> 30.25
+ [2, 6] -> 36.50
+ [2, 3, 6] -> 36.50
+ [2, 4, 6] -> 37.24
+ [0, 4] -> 59.71
+ [0, 2, 4] -> 59.71
+
+
+Algorithm
+---------
+
+Data structure
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+In order to build the alpha complex, first, a Simplex tree is built from the cells of a Delaunay Triangulation.
+(The filtration value is set to NaN, which stands for unknown value):
+
+.. figure::
+ ../../doc/Alpha_complex/alpha_complex_doc.png
+ :figclass: align-center
+ :alt: Simplex tree structure construction example
+
+ Simplex tree structure construction example
+
+Filtration value computation algorithm
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+ **for** i : dimension :math:`\rightarrow` 0 **do**
+ **for all** :math:`\sigma` of dimension i
+ **if** filtration(:math:`\sigma`) is NaN **then**
+ filtration(:math:`\sigma`) = :math:`\alpha^2(\sigma)`
+ **end if**
+
+ *//propagate alpha filtration value*
+
+ **for all** :math:`\tau` face of :math:`\sigma`
+ **if** filtration(:math:`\tau`) is not NaN **then**
+ filtration(:math:`\tau`) = filtration(:math:`\sigma`)
+ **end if**
+ **end for**
+ **end for**
+ **end for**
+
+ make_filtration_non_decreasing()
+
+ prune_above_filtration()
+
+Dimension 2
+^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+From the example above, it means the algorithm looks into each triangle ([0,1,2], [0,2,4], [1,2,3], ...),
+computes the filtration value of the triangle, and then propagates the filtration value as described
+here:
+
+.. figure::
+ ../../doc/Alpha_complex/alpha_complex_doc_420.png
+ :figclass: align-center
+ :alt: Filtration value propagation example
+
+ Filtration value propagation example
+
+Dimension 1
+^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Then, the algorithm looks into each edge ([0,1], [0,2], [1,2], ...),
+computes the filtration value of the edge (in this case, propagation will have no effect).
+
+Dimension 0
+^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Finally, the algorithm looks into each vertex ([0], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5] and [6]) and
+sets the filtration value (0 in case of a vertex - propagation will have no effect).
+
+Non decreasing filtration values
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+As the squared radii computed by CGAL are an approximation, it might happen that these alpha squared values do not
+quite define a proper filtration (i.e. non-decreasing with respect to inclusion).
+We fix that up by calling `Simplex_tree::make_filtration_non_decreasing()` (cf.
+`C++ version <http://gudhi.gforge.inria.fr/doc/latest/index.html>`_).
+
+Prune above given filtration value
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+The simplex tree is pruned from the given maximum alpha squared value (cf. `Simplex_tree::prune_above_filtration()`
+in the `C++ version <http://gudhi.gforge.inria.fr/doc/latest/index.html>`_). Note that this does not provide any kind
+of speed-up, since we always first build the full filtered complex, so it is recommended not to use `max_alpha_square`.
+In the following example, a threshold of 59 is used.
+
+
+Example from OFF file
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+This example builds the Delaunay triangulation from the points given by an OFF file, and initializes the alpha complex
+with it.
+
+
+Then, it is asked to display information about the alpha complex:
+
+.. testcode::
+
+ import gudhi
+ alpha_complex = gudhi.AlphaComplex(off_file=gudhi.__root_source_dir__ + \
+ '/data/points/alphacomplexdoc.off')
+ simplex_tree = alpha_complex.create_simplex_tree(max_alpha_square=59.0)
+ result_str = 'Alpha complex is of dimension ' + repr(simplex_tree.dimension()) + ' - ' + \
+ repr(simplex_tree.num_simplices()) + ' simplices - ' + \
+ repr(simplex_tree.num_vertices()) + ' vertices.'
+ print(result_str)
+ fmt = '%s -> %.2f'
+ for filtered_value in simplex_tree.get_filtration():
+ print(fmt % tuple(filtered_value))
+
+the program output is:
+
+.. testoutput::
+
+ Alpha complex is of dimension 2 - 23 simplices - 7 vertices.
+ [0] -> 0.00
+ [1] -> 0.00
+ [2] -> 0.00
+ [3] -> 0.00
+ [4] -> 0.00
+ [5] -> 0.00
+ [6] -> 0.00
+ [2, 3] -> 6.25
+ [4, 5] -> 7.25
+ [0, 2] -> 8.50
+ [0, 1] -> 9.25
+ [1, 3] -> 10.00
+ [1, 2] -> 11.25
+ [1, 2, 3] -> 12.50
+ [0, 1, 2] -> 13.00
+ [5, 6] -> 13.25
+ [2, 4] -> 20.00
+ [4, 6] -> 22.74
+ [4, 5, 6] -> 22.74
+ [3, 6] -> 30.25
+ [2, 6] -> 36.50
+ [2, 3, 6] -> 36.50
+ [2, 4, 6] -> 37.24
+
+CGAL citations
+==============
+
+.. bibliography:: ../../biblio/how_to_cite_cgal.bib
+ :filter: docnames
+ :style: unsrt
diff --git a/src/python/doc/bottleneck_distance_sum.inc b/src/python/doc/bottleneck_distance_sum.inc
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+.. table::
+ :widths: 30 50 20
+
+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------+
+ | .. figure:: | Bottleneck distance measures the similarity between two persistence | :Author: François Godi |
+ | ../../doc/Bottleneck_distance/perturb_pd.png | diagrams. It's the shortest distance b for which there exists a | |
+ | :figclass: align-center | perfect matching between the points of the two diagrams (+ all the | :Introduced in: GUDHI 2.0.0 |
+ | | diagonal points) such that any couple of matched points are at | |
+ | Bottleneck distance is the length of | distance at most b, where the distance between points is the sup | :Copyright: MIT (`GPL v3 </licensing/>`_) |
+ | the longest edge | norm in :math:`\mathbb{R}^2`. | |
+ | | | :Requires: `CGAL <installation.html#cgal>`__ :math:`\geq` 4.11.0 |
+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------+
+ | * :doc:`bottleneck_distance_user` | |
+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
diff --git a/src/python/doc/bottleneck_distance_user.rst b/src/python/doc/bottleneck_distance_user.rst
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+:orphan:
+
+.. To get rid of WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
+
+Bottleneck distance user manual
+===============================
+Definition
+----------
+
+.. include:: bottleneck_distance_sum.inc
+
+This implementation is based on ideas from "Geometry Helps in Bottleneck Matching and Related Problems"
+:cite:`DBLP:journals/algorithmica/EfratIK01`. Another relevant publication, although it was not used is
+"Geometry Helps to Compare Persistence Diagrams" :cite:`Kerber:2017:GHC:3047249.3064175`.
+
+Function
+--------
+.. autofunction:: gudhi.bottleneck_distance
+
+Distance computation
+--------------------
+
+The following example explains how the distance is computed:
+
+.. testcode::
+
+ import gudhi
+
+ message = "Bottleneck distance = " + '%.1f' % gudhi.bottleneck_distance([[0., 0.]], [[0., 13.]])
+ print(message)
+
+.. testoutput::
+
+ Bottleneck distance = 6.5
+
+.. figure::
+ ../../doc/Bottleneck_distance/bottleneck_distance_example.png
+ :figclass: align-center
+
+ The point (0, 13) is at distance 6.5 from the diagonal and more
+ specifically from the point (6.5, 6.5)
+
+
+Basic example
+-------------
+
+This other example computes the bottleneck distance from 2 persistence diagrams:
+
+.. testcode::
+
+ import gudhi
+
+ diag1 = [[2.7, 3.7],[9.6, 14.],[34.2, 34.974], [3.,float('Inf')]]
+ diag2 = [[2.8, 4.45],[9.5, 14.1],[3.2,float('Inf')]]
+
+ message = "Bottleneck distance approximation = " + '%.2f' % gudhi.bottleneck_distance(diag1, diag2, 0.1)
+ print(message)
+
+ message = "Bottleneck distance value = " + '%.2f' % gudhi.bottleneck_distance(diag1, diag2)
+ print(message)
+
+The output is:
+
+.. testoutput::
+
+ Bottleneck distance approximation = 0.81
+ Bottleneck distance value = 0.75
diff --git a/src/python/doc/citation.rst b/src/python/doc/citation.rst
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+:orphan:
+
+.. To get rid of WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
+
+Acknowledging the GUDHI library
+###############################
+
+We kindly ask users to cite the GUDHI library as appropriately as possible in
+their papers, and to mention the use of the GUDHI library on the web pages of
+their projects using GUDHI and provide us with links to these web pages. Feel
+free to contact us in case you have any question or remark on this topic.
+
+We provide GUDHI bibtex entries for the modules of the User and Reference
+Manual, as well as for publications directly related to the GUDHI library.
+
+GUDHI bibtex
+************
+
+.. literalinclude:: ../../biblio/how_to_cite_gudhi.bib
diff --git a/src/python/doc/conf.py b/src/python/doc/conf.py
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+++ b/src/python/doc/conf.py
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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+#
+# GUDHI documentation build configuration file, created by
+# sphinx-quickstart on Thu Jun 30 09:55:51 2016.
+#
+# This file is execfile()d with the current directory set to its
+# containing dir.
+#
+# Note that not all possible configuration values are present in this
+# autogenerated file.
+#
+# All configuration values have a default; values that are commented out
+# serve to show the default.
+
+import sys
+import os
+
+# If extensions (or modules to document with autodoc) are in another directory,
+# add these directories to sys.path here. If the directory is relative to the
+# documentation root, use os.path.abspath to make it absolute, like shown here.
+#sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('.'))
+
+# Path to Gudhi.so from source path
+sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('.'))
+
+# -- General configuration ------------------------------------------------
+
+# If your documentation needs a minimal Sphinx version, state it here.
+#needs_sphinx = '1.0'
+
+# Add any Sphinx extension module names here, as strings. They can be
+# extensions coming with Sphinx (named 'sphinx.ext.*') or your custom
+# ones.
+extensions = [
+ 'matplotlib.sphinxext.plot_directive',
+ 'sphinx.ext.autodoc',
+ 'sphinx.ext.doctest',
+ 'sphinx.ext.todo',
+ 'sphinx.ext.mathjax',
+ 'sphinx.ext.ifconfig',
+ 'sphinx.ext.viewcode',
+ 'sphinxcontrib.bibtex',
+]
+
+todo_include_todos = True
+# plot option : do not show hyperlinks (Source code, png, hires.png, pdf)
+plot_html_show_source_link = False
+plot_html_show_formats = False
+# Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
+templates_path = ['_templates']
+
+# The suffix of source filenames.
+source_suffix = '.rst'
+
+# The encoding of source files.
+#source_encoding = 'utf-8-sig'
+
+# The master toctree document.
+master_doc = 'index'
+
+import gudhi
+
+# General information about the project.
+project = gudhi.__name__
+copyright = gudhi.__copyright__ + ' - MIT'
+
+# The version info for the project you're documenting, acts as replacement for
+# |version| and |release|, also used in various other places throughout the
+# built documents.
+#
+# The short X.Y version.
+version = gudhi.__version__
+# The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
+#release = '2.0.1-rc1'
+
+# The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
+# for a list of supported languages.
+#language = None
+
+# There are two options for replacing |today|: either, you set today to some
+# non-false value, then it is used:
+#today = ''
+# Else, today_fmt is used as the format for a strftime call.
+#today_fmt = '%B %d, %Y'
+
+# List of patterns, relative to source directory, that match files and
+# directories to ignore when looking for source files.
+exclude_patterns = ['_build', '*.inc']
+
+# The reST default role (used for this markup: `text`) to use for all
+# documents.
+#default_role = None
+
+# If true, '()' will be appended to :func: etc. cross-reference text.
+#add_function_parentheses = True
+
+# If true, the current module name will be prepended to all description
+# unit titles (such as .. function::).
+#add_module_names = True
+
+# If true, sectionauthor and moduleauthor directives will be shown in the
+# output. They are ignored by default.
+#show_authors = False
+
+# The name of the Pygments (syntax highlighting) style to use.
+pygments_style = 'sphinx'
+
+# A list of ignored prefixes for module index sorting.
+#modindex_common_prefix = []
+
+# If true, keep warnings as "system message" paragraphs in the built documents.
+#keep_warnings = False
+
+
+# -- Options for HTML output ----------------------------------------------
+
+# The theme to use for HTML and HTML Help pages. See the documentation for
+# a list of builtin themes.
+html_theme = 'classic'
+
+# Theme options are theme-specific and customize the look and feel of a theme
+# further. For a list of options available for each theme, see the
+# documentation.
+html_theme_options = {
+ "sidebarbgcolor": "#A1ADCD",
+ "sidebartextcolor": "black",
+ "sidebarlinkcolor": "#334D5C",
+ "body_max_width": "100%",
+}
+
+# Add any paths that contain custom themes here, relative to this directory.
+#html_theme_path = []
+
+# The name for this set of Sphinx documents. If None, it defaults to
+# "<project> v<release> documentation".
+#html_title = None
+
+# A shorter title for the navigation bar. Default is the same as html_title.
+#html_short_title = None
+
+# The name of an image file (relative to this directory) to place at the top
+# of the sidebar.
+#html_logo =
+
+# The name of an image file (within the static path) to use as favicon of the
+# docs. This file should be a Windows icon file (.ico) being 16x16 or 32x32
+# pixels large.
+#html_favicon =
+
+# Add any paths that contain custom static files (such as style sheets) here,
+# relative to this directory. They are copied after the builtin static files,
+# so a file named "default.css" will overwrite the builtin "default.css".
+html_static_path = ['_static']
+
+# Add any extra paths that contain custom files (such as robots.txt or
+# .htaccess) here, relative to this directory. These files are copied
+# directly to the root of the documentation.
+#html_extra_path = []
+
+# If not '', a 'Last updated on:' timestamp is inserted at every page bottom,
+# using the given strftime format.
+html_last_updated_fmt = '%b %d, %Y'
+
+# If true, SmartyPants will be used to convert quotes and dashes to
+# typographically correct entities.
+#html_use_smartypants = True
+
+# Custom sidebar templates, maps document names to template names.
+#html_sidebars = {}
+
+# Additional templates that should be rendered to pages, maps page names to
+# template names.
+#html_additional_pages = {'installation': 'installation.html'}
+
+# If false, no module index is generated.
+#html_domain_indices = True
+
+# If false, no index is generated.
+#html_use_index = True
+
+# If true, the index is split into individual pages for each letter.
+#html_split_index = False
+
+# If true, links to the reST sources are added to the pages.
+#html_show_sourcelink = True
+
+# If true, "Created using Sphinx" is shown in the HTML footer. Default is True.
+#html_show_sphinx = True
+
+# If true, "(C) Copyright ..." is shown in the HTML footer. Default is True.
+#html_show_copyright = True
+
+# If true, an OpenSearch description file will be output, and all pages will
+# contain a <link> tag referring to it. The value of this option must be the
+# base URL from which the finished HTML is served.
+#html_use_opensearch = ''
+
+# This is the file name suffix for HTML files (e.g. ".xhtml").
+#html_file_suffix = None
+
+# Output file base name for HTML help builder.
+htmlhelp_basename = 'GUDHIdoc'
+
diff --git a/src/python/doc/cubical_complex_ref.rst b/src/python/doc/cubical_complex_ref.rst
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+:orphan:
+
+.. To get rid of WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
+
+Cubical complex reference manual
+################################
+
+.. autoclass:: gudhi.CubicalComplex
+ :members:
+ :undoc-members:
+ :show-inheritance:
+
+ .. automethod:: gudhi.CubicalComplex.__init__
diff --git a/src/python/doc/cubical_complex_sum.inc b/src/python/doc/cubical_complex_sum.inc
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+.. table::
+ :widths: 30 50 20
+
+ +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------+
+ | .. figure:: | The cubical complex is an example of a structured complex useful in | :Author: Pawel Dlotko |
+ | ../../doc/Bitmap_cubical_complex/Cubical_complex_representation.png | computational mathematics (specially rigorous numerics) and image | |
+ | :alt: Cubical complex representation | analysis. | :Introduced in: GUDHI 2.0.0 |
+ | :figclass: align-center | | |
+ | | | :Copyright: MIT |
+ | | | |
+ +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------+
+ | * :doc:`cubical_complex_user` | * :doc:`cubical_complex_ref` |
+ | | * :doc:`periodic_cubical_complex_ref` |
+ +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
diff --git a/src/python/doc/cubical_complex_user.rst b/src/python/doc/cubical_complex_user.rst
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+:orphan:
+
+.. To get rid of WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
+
+Cubical complex user manual
+===========================
+Definition
+----------
+
+===================================== ===================================== =====================================
+:Author: Pawel Dlotko :Introduced in: GUDHI PYTHON 2.0.0 :Copyright: GPL v3
+===================================== ===================================== =====================================
+
++---------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| :doc:`cubical_complex_user` | * :doc:`cubical_complex_ref` |
+| | * :doc:`periodic_cubical_complex_ref` |
++---------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
+
+The cubical complex is an example of a structured complex useful in computational mathematics (specially rigorous
+numerics) and image analysis.
+
+An *elementary interval* is an interval of a form :math:`[n,n+1]`, or :math:`[n,n]`, for :math:`n \in \mathcal{Z}`.
+The first one is called *non-degenerate*, while the second one is a *degenerate* interval. A
+*boundary of a elementary interval* is a chain :math:`\partial [n,n+1] = [n+1,n+1]-[n,n]` in case of
+non-degenerated elementary interval and :math:`\partial [n,n] = 0` in case of degenerate elementary interval. An
+*elementary cube* :math:`C` is a product of elementary intervals, :math:`C=I_1 \times \ldots \times I_n`.
+*Embedding dimension* of a cube is n, the number of elementary intervals (degenerate or not) in the product.
+A *dimension of a cube* :math:`C=I_1 \times ... \times I_n` is the number of non degenerate elementary
+intervals in the product. A *boundary of a cube* :math:`C=I_1 \times \ldots \times I_n` is a chain obtained
+in the following way:
+
+.. math::
+
+ \partial C = (\partial I_1 \times \ldots \times I_n) + (I_1 \times \partial I_2 \times \ldots \times I_n) +
+ \ldots + (I_1 \times I_2 \times \ldots \times \partial I_n).
+
+A *cubical complex* :math:`\mathcal{K}` is a collection of cubes closed under operation of taking boundary
+(i.e. boundary of every cube from the collection is in the collection). A cube :math:`C` in cubical complex
+:math:`\mathcal{K}` is *maximal* if it is not in a boundary of any other cube in :math:`\mathcal{K}`. A
+*support* of a cube :math:`C` is the set in :math:`\mathbb{R}^n` occupied by :math:`C` (:math:`n` is the embedding
+dimension of :math:`C`).
+
+Cubes may be equipped with a filtration values in which case we have filtered cubical complex. All the cubical
+complexes considered in this implementation are filtered cubical complexes (although, the range of a filtration may
+be a set of two elements).
+
+For further details and theory of cubical complexes, please consult :cite:`kaczynski2004computational` as well as the
+following paper :cite:`peikert2012topological`.
+
+Data structure.
+---------------
+
+The implementation of Cubical complex provides a representation of complexes that occupy a rectangular region in
+:math:`\mathbb{R}^n`. This extra assumption allows for a memory efficient way of storing cubical complexes in a form
+of so called bitmaps. Let
+:math:`R = [b_1,e_1] \times \ldots \times [b_n,e_n]`, for :math:`b_1,...b_n,e_1,...,e_n \in \mathbb{Z}`,
+:math:`b_i \leq d_i` be the considered rectangular region and let :math:`\mathcal{K}` be a filtered
+cubical complex having the rectangle :math:`R` as its support. Note that the structure of the coordinate system gives
+a way a lexicographical ordering of cells of :math:`\mathcal{K}`. This ordering is a base of the presented
+bitmap-based implementation. In this implementation, the whole cubical complex is stored as a vector of the values
+of filtration. This, together with dimension of :math:`\mathcal{K}` and the sizes of :math:`\mathcal{K}` in all
+directions, allows to determine, dimension, neighborhood, boundary and coboundary of every cube
+:math:`C \in \mathcal{K}`.
+
+.. figure::
+ ../../doc/Bitmap_cubical_complex/Cubical_complex_representation.png
+ :alt: Cubical complex.
+ :figclass: align-center
+
+ Cubical complex.
+
+Note that the cubical complex in the figure above is, in a natural way, a product of one dimensional cubical
+complexes in :math:`\mathbb{R}`. The number of all cubes in each direction is equal :math:`2n+1`, where :math:`n` is
+the number of maximal cubes in the considered direction. Let us consider a cube at the position :math:`k` in the
+bitmap.
+Knowing the sizes of the bitmap, by a series of modulo operation, we can determine which elementary intervals are
+present in the product that gives the cube :math:`C`. In a similar way, we can compute boundary and the coboundary of
+each cube. Further details can be found in the literature.
+
+Input Format.
+-------------
+
+In the current implantation, filtration is given at the maximal cubes, and it is then extended by the lower star
+filtration to all cubes. There are a number of constructors that can be used to construct cubical complex by users
+who want to use the code directly. They can be found in the :doc:`cubical_complex_ref`.
+Currently one input from a text file is used. It uses a format inspired from the Perseus software
+`Perseus software <http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~vnanda/perseus/>`_ by Vidit Nanda.
+
+.. note::
+ While Perseus assume the filtration of all maximal cubes to be non-negative, over here we do not enforce this and
+ we allow any filtration values. As a consequence one cannot use ``-1``'s to indicate missing cubes. If you have
+ missing cubes in your complex, please set their filtration to :math:`+\infty` (aka. ``inf`` in the file).
+
+The file format is described in details in :ref:`Perseus file format` file format section.
+
+.. testcode::
+
+ import gudhi
+ cubical_complex = gudhi.CubicalComplex(perseus_file=gudhi.__root_source_dir__ + \
+ '/data/bitmap/cubicalcomplexdoc.txt')
+ result_str = 'Cubical complex is of dimension ' + repr(cubical_complex.dimension()) + ' - ' + \
+ repr(cubical_complex.num_simplices()) + ' simplices.'
+ print(result_str)
+
+the program output is:
+
+.. testoutput::
+
+ Cubical complex is of dimension 2 - 49 simplices.
+
+Periodic boundary conditions.
+-----------------------------
+
+Often one would like to impose periodic boundary conditions to the cubical complex (cf.
+:doc:`periodic_cubical_complex_ref`).
+Let :math:`I_1\times ... \times I_n` be a box that is decomposed with a cubical complex :math:`\mathcal{K}`.
+Imposing periodic boundary conditions in the direction i, means that the left and the right side of a complex
+:math:`\mathcal{K}` are considered the same. In particular, if for a bitmap :math:`\mathcal{K}` periodic boundary
+conditions are imposed in all directions, then complex :math:`\mathcal{K}` became n-dimensional torus. One can use
+various constructors from the file Bitmap_cubical_complex_periodic_boundary_conditions_base.h to construct cubical
+complex with periodic boundary conditions.
+
+One can also use Perseus style input files (see :doc:`Perseus <fileformats>`) for the specific periodic case:
+
+.. testcode::
+
+ import gudhi
+ periodic_cc = gudhi.PeriodicCubicalComplex(perseus_file=gudhi.__root_source_dir__ + \
+ '/data/bitmap/periodiccubicalcomplexdoc.txt')
+ result_str = 'Periodic cubical complex is of dimension ' + repr(periodic_cc.dimension()) + ' - ' + \
+ repr(periodic_cc.num_simplices()) + ' simplices.'
+ print(result_str)
+
+the program output is:
+
+.. testoutput::
+
+ Periodic cubical complex is of dimension 2 - 42 simplices.
+
+Or it can be defined as follows:
+
+.. testcode::
+
+ from gudhi import PeriodicCubicalComplex as pcc
+ periodic_cc = pcc(dimensions=[3,3],
+ top_dimensional_cells= [0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0],
+ periodic_dimensions=[True, False])
+ result_str = 'Periodic cubical complex is of dimension ' + repr(periodic_cc.dimension()) + ' - ' + \
+ repr(periodic_cc.num_simplices()) + ' simplices.'
+ print(result_str)
+
+the program output is:
+
+.. testoutput::
+
+ Periodic cubical complex is of dimension 2 - 42 simplices.
+
+Examples.
+---------
+
+End user programs are available in python/example/ folder.
+
+Bibliography
+============
+
+.. bibliography:: ../../biblio/bibliography.bib
+ :filter: docnames
+ :style: unsrt
diff --git a/src/python/doc/euclidean_strong_witness_complex_ref.rst b/src/python/doc/euclidean_strong_witness_complex_ref.rst
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+:orphan:
+
+.. To get rid of WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
+
+=================================================
+Euclidean strong witness complex reference manual
+=================================================
+
+.. autoclass:: gudhi.EuclideanStrongWitnessComplex
+ :members:
+ :undoc-members:
+ :show-inheritance:
+
+ .. automethod:: gudhi.EuclideanStrongWitnessComplex.__init__
diff --git a/src/python/doc/euclidean_witness_complex_ref.rst b/src/python/doc/euclidean_witness_complex_ref.rst
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+:orphan:
+
+.. To get rid of WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
+
+==========================================
+Euclidean witness complex reference manual
+==========================================
+
+.. autoclass:: gudhi.EuclideanWitnessComplex
+ :members:
+ :undoc-members:
+ :show-inheritance:
+
+ .. automethod:: gudhi.EuclideanWitnessComplex.__init__
diff --git a/src/python/doc/examples.rst b/src/python/doc/examples.rst
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+:orphan:
+
+.. To get rid of WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
+
+Examples
+########
+
+.. only:: builder_html
+
+ * :download:`rips_complex_from_points_example.py <../example/rips_complex_from_points_example.py>`
+ * :download:`alpha_complex_from_points_example.py <../example/alpha_complex_from_points_example.py>`
+ * :download:`simplex_tree_example.py <../example/simplex_tree_example.py>`
+ * :download:`alpha_rips_persistence_bottleneck_distance.py <../example/alpha_rips_persistence_bottleneck_distance.py>`
+ * :download:`tangential_complex_plain_homology_from_off_file_example.py <../example/tangential_complex_plain_homology_from_off_file_example.py>`
+ * :download:`alpha_complex_diagram_persistence_from_off_file_example.py <../example/alpha_complex_diagram_persistence_from_off_file_example.py>`
+ * :download:`periodic_cubical_complex_barcode_persistence_from_perseus_file_example.py <../example/periodic_cubical_complex_barcode_persistence_from_perseus_file_example.py>`
+ * :download:`bottleneck_basic_example.py <../example/bottleneck_basic_example.py>`
+ * :download:`gudhi_graphical_tools_example.py <../example/gudhi_graphical_tools_example.py>`
+ * :download:`witness_complex_from_nearest_landmark_table.py <../example/witness_complex_from_nearest_landmark_table.py>`
+ * :download:`euclidean_strong_witness_complex_diagram_persistence_from_off_file_example.py <../example/euclidean_strong_witness_complex_diagram_persistence_from_off_file_example.py>`
+ * :download:`euclidean_witness_complex_diagram_persistence_from_off_file_example.py <../example/euclidean_witness_complex_diagram_persistence_from_off_file_example.py>`
+ * :download:`rips_complex_diagram_persistence_from_off_file_example.py <../example/rips_complex_diagram_persistence_from_off_file_example.py>`
+ * :download:`rips_complex_diagram_persistence_from_distance_matrix_file_example.py <../example/rips_complex_diagram_persistence_from_distance_matrix_file_example.py>`
+ * :download:`rips_persistence_diagram.py <../example/rips_persistence_diagram.py>`
+ * :download:`sparse_rips_persistence_diagram.py <../example/sparse_rips_persistence_diagram.py>`
+ * :download:`random_cubical_complex_persistence_example.py <../example/random_cubical_complex_persistence_example.py>`
+ * :download:`coordinate_graph_induced_complex.py <../example/coordinate_graph_induced_complex.py>`
+ * :download:`functional_graph_induced_complex.py <../example/functional_graph_induced_complex.py>`
+ * :download:`voronoi_graph_induced_complex.py <../example/voronoi_graph_induced_complex.py>`
+ * :download:`nerve_of_a_covering.py <../example/nerve_of_a_covering.py>`
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+
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+
+File formats
+############
+
+OFF file format
+***************
+
+OFF files must be conform to format described here:
+http://www.geomview.org/docs/html/OFF.html
+
+OFF files are mainly used as point cloud inputs. Here is an example of 7 points
+in a 3-dimensional space. As edges and faces are not used for point set, there
+is no need to specify them (just set their numbers to 0):
+
+.. literalinclude:: ../../data/points/alphacomplexdoc.off
+
+.. centered:: ../../points/alphacomplexdoc.off
+
+For dimensions bigger than 3, the dimension can be set like here::
+
+ # Dimension is no more 3
+ nOFF
+ # dimension 4 - 7 vertices - 0 face - 0 edge
+ 4 7 0 0
+ # Point set:
+ 1.0 1.0 0.0 0.0
+ 7.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
+ 4.0 6.0 0.0 0.0
+ 9.0 6.0 0.0 0.0
+ 0.0 14.0 0.0 0.0
+ 2.0 19.0 0.0 0.0
+ 9.0 17.0 0.0 0.0
+
+Persistence Diagram
+*******************
+
+Such a file, whose extension is usually ``.pers``, contains a list of
+persistence intervals.
+
+Lines starting with ``#`` are ignored (comments).
+
+Other lines might contain 2, 3 or 4 values (the number of values on each line
+must be the same for all lines)::
+
+ [[field] dimension] birth death
+
+Here is a simple sample file::
+
+ # Persistence diagram example
+ 2 2.7 3.7
+ 2 9.6 14.
+ # Some comments
+ 3 34.2 34.974
+ 4 3. inf
+
+Other sample files can be found in the `data/persistence_diagram` folder.
+
+Such files can be generated with
+:meth:`gudhi.SimplexTree.write_persistence_diagram`, read with
+:meth:`gudhi.read_persistence_intervals_grouped_by_dimension`, or
+:meth:`gudhi.read_persistence_intervals_in_dimension` and displayed with
+:meth:`gudhi.plot_persistence_barcode` or
+:meth:`gudhi.plot_persistence_diagram`.
+
+Iso-cuboid
+**********
+
+Such a file describes an iso-oriented cuboid with diagonal opposite vertices
+(min_x, min_y, min_z,...) and (max_x, max_y, max_z, ...). The format is::
+
+ min_x min_y [min_z ...]
+ max_x max_y [max_z ...]
+
+Here is a simple sample file in the 3D case::
+
+ -1. -1. -1.
+ 1. 1. 1.
+
+
+.. _Perseus file format:
+
+Perseus
+*******
+
+This file format is a format inspired from the
+`Perseus software <http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~vnanda/perseus/>`_ by Vidit Nanda.
+The first line contains a number d begin the dimension of the bitmap (2 in the
+example below). Next d lines are the numbers of top dimensional cubes in each
+dimensions (3 and 3 in the example below). Next, in lexicographical order, the
+filtration of top dimensional cubes is given (1 4 6 8 20 4 7 6 5 in the example
+below).
+
+.. figure::
+ ../../doc/Bitmap_cubical_complex/exampleBitmap.png
+ :alt: Example of a input data.
+ :figclass: align-center
+
+ Example of a input data.
+
+The input file for the following complex is:
+
+.. literalinclude:: ../../data/bitmap/cubicalcomplexdoc.txt
+
+.. centered:: ../../data/bitmap/cubicalcomplexdoc.txt
+
+To indicate periodic boundary conditions in a given direction, then number of
+top dimensional cells in this direction have to be multiplied by -1. For
+instance:
+
+.. literalinclude:: ../../data/bitmap/periodiccubicalcomplexdoc.txt
+
+.. centered:: ../../data/bitmap/periodiccubicalcomplexdoc.txt
+
+
+Indicate that we have imposed periodic boundary conditions in the direction x,
+but not in the direction y.
+
+Other sample files can be found in the `data/bitmap` folder.
+
+.. note::
+ Unlike in Perseus format the filtration on the maximal cubes can be any
+ double precision number. Consequently one cannot mark the cubes that are
+ not present with ``-1``'s. To do that please set their filtration value to
+ :math:`+\infty` (aka. ``inf`` in the file). \ No newline at end of file
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+GUDHI Python module documentation
+#################################
+
+.. figure::
+ ../../doc/common/Gudhi_banner.png
+ :alt: Gudhi banner
+ :figclass: align-center
+
+Complexes
+*********
+
+Cubical complexes
+=================
+
+.. include:: cubical_complex_sum.inc
+
+Simplicial complexes
+====================
+
+Alpha complex
+-------------
+
+.. include:: alpha_complex_sum.inc
+
+Rips complex
+-------------
+
+.. include:: rips_complex_sum.inc
+
+Witness complex
+---------------
+
+.. include:: witness_complex_sum.inc
+
+Cover complexes
+===============
+
+.. include:: nerve_gic_complex_sum.inc
+
+Data structures and basic operations
+************************************
+
+Data structures
+===============
+
+Simplex tree
+------------
+
+.. include:: simplex_tree_sum.inc
+
+Topological descriptors computation
+***********************************
+
+Persistence cohomology
+======================
+
+.. include:: persistent_cohomology_sum.inc
+
+Manifold reconstruction
+***********************
+
+Tangential complex
+==================
+
+.. include:: tangential_complex_sum.inc
+
+
+Topological descriptors tools
+*****************************
+
+Bottleneck distance
+===================
+
+.. include:: bottleneck_distance_sum.inc
+
+Persistence graphical tools
+===========================
+
+.. include:: persistence_graphical_tools_sum.inc
+
+Bibliography
+************
+
+.. bibliography:: ../../biblio/bibliography.bib
+ :filter: docnames
+ :style: unsrt
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+
+.. To get rid of WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
+
+Installation
+############
+
+Conda
+*****
+The easiest way to install the Python version of GUDHI is using
+`conda <https://gudhi.inria.fr/licensing/>`_.
+
+Compiling
+*********
+The library uses c++11 and requires `Boost <https://www.boost.org/>`_ ≥ 1.56.0,
+`CMake <https://www.cmake.org/>`_ ≥ 3.1 to generate makefiles,
+`NumPy <http://numpy.org>`_ and `Cython <https://www.cython.org/>`_ to compile
+the GUDHI Python module.
+It is a multi-platform library and compiles on Linux, Mac OSX and Visual
+Studio 2015.
+
+On `Windows <https://wiki.python.org/moin/WindowsCompilers>`_ , only Python
+≥ 3.5 are available because of the required Visual Studio version.
+
+On other systems, if you have several Python/python installed, the version 2.X
+will be used by default, but you can force it by adding
+:code:`-DPython_ADDITIONAL_VERSIONS=3` to the cmake command.
+
+GUDHI Python module compilation
+===============================
+
+To build the GUDHI Python module, run the following commands in a terminal:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ cd /path-to-gudhi/
+ mkdir build
+ cd build/
+ cmake ..
+ cd python
+ make
+
+GUDHI Python module installation
+================================
+
+Once the compilation succeeds, one can add the GUDHI Python module path to the
+PYTHONPATH:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ # For windows, you have to set PYTHONPATH environment variable
+ export PYTHONPATH='$PYTHONPATH:/path-to-gudhi/build/python'
+
+Or install it definitely in your Python packages folder:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ cd /path-to-gudhi/build/python
+ # May require sudo or administrator privileges
+ make install
+
+
+Test suites
+===========
+
+To test your build, `py.test <http://doc.pytest.org>`_ is optional. Run the
+following command in a terminal:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ cd /path-to-gudhi/build/python
+ # For windows, you have to set PYTHONPATH environment variable
+ export PYTHONPATH='$PYTHONPATH:/path-to-gudhi/build/python'
+ make test
+
+Debugging issues
+================
+
+If tests fail, please check your PYTHONPATH and try to :code:`import gudhi`
+and check the errors.
+The problem can come from a third-party library bad link or installation.
+
+If :code:`import gudhi` succeeds, please have a look to debug information:
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+ import gudhi
+ print(gudhi.__debug_info__)
+
+You shall have something like:
+
+.. code-block:: none
+
+ Python version 2.7.15
+ Cython version 0.26.1
+ Numpy version 1.14.1
+ Eigen3 version 3.1.1
+ Installed modules are: off_reader;simplex_tree;rips_complex;
+ cubical_complex;periodic_cubical_complex;reader_utils;witness_complex;
+ strong_witness_complex;alpha_complex;
+ Missing modules are: bottleneck_distance;nerve_gic;subsampling;
+ tangential_complex;persistence_graphical_tools;
+ euclidean_witness_complex;euclidean_strong_witness_complex;
+ CGAL version 4.7.1000
+ GMP_LIBRARIES = /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmp.so
+ GMPXX_LIBRARIES = /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmpxx.so
+ TBB version 9107 found and used
+
+Here, you can see that bottleneck_distance, nerve_gic, subsampling and
+tangential_complex are missing because of the CGAL version.
+persistence_graphical_tools is not available as matplotlib is not
+available.
+Unitary tests cannot be run as pytest is missing.
+
+A complete configuration would be :
+
+.. code-block:: none
+
+ Python version 3.6.5
+ Cython version 0.28.2
+ Pytest version 3.3.2
+ Matplotlib version 2.2.2
+ Numpy version 1.14.5
+ Eigen3 version 3.3.4
+ Installed modules are: off_reader;simplex_tree;rips_complex;
+ cubical_complex;periodic_cubical_complex;persistence_graphical_tools;
+ reader_utils;witness_complex;strong_witness_complex;
+ persistence_graphical_tools;bottleneck_distance;nerve_gic;subsampling;
+ tangential_complex;alpha_complex;euclidean_witness_complex;
+ euclidean_strong_witness_complex;
+ CGAL header only version 4.11.0
+ GMP_LIBRARIES = /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmp.so
+ GMPXX_LIBRARIES = /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmpxx.so
+ TBB version 9107 found and used
+
+Documentation
+=============
+
+To build the documentation, `sphinx-doc <http://www.sphinx-doc.org>`_ and
+`sphinxcontrib-bibtex <https://sphinxcontrib-bibtex.readthedocs.io>`_ are
+required. As the documentation is auto-tested, `CGAL`_, `Eigen3`_,
+`Matplotlib`_, `NumPy`_ and `SciPy`_ are also mandatory to build the
+documentation.
+
+Run the following commands in a terminal:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ cd /path-to-gudhi/build/python
+ make sphinx
+
+Optional third-party library
+****************************
+
+CGAL
+====
+
+Some GUDHI modules (cf. :doc:`modules list </index>`), and few examples
+require CGAL, a C++ library that provides easy access to efficient and
+reliable geometric algorithms.
+
+
+The procedure to install this library
+according to your operating system is detailed
+`here <http://doc.cgal.org/latest/Manual/installation.html>`_.
+
+The following examples requires CGAL version ≥ 4.11.0:
+
+.. only:: builder_html
+
+ * :download:`alpha_complex_diagram_persistence_from_off_file_example.py <../example/alpha_complex_diagram_persistence_from_off_file_example.py>`
+ * :download:`alpha_complex_from_points_example.py <../example/alpha_complex_from_points_example.py>`
+ * :download:`bottleneck_basic_example.py <../example/bottleneck_basic_example.py>`
+ * :download:`tangential_complex_plain_homology_from_off_file_example.py <../example/tangential_complex_plain_homology_from_off_file_example.py>`
+ * :download:`euclidean_strong_witness_complex_diagram_persistence_from_off_file_example.py <../example/euclidean_strong_witness_complex_diagram_persistence_from_off_file_example.py>`
+ * :download:`euclidean_witness_complex_diagram_persistence_from_off_file_example.py <../example/euclidean_witness_complex_diagram_persistence_from_off_file_example.py>`
+
+Eigen
+=====
+
+Some GUDHI modules (cf. :doc:`modules list </index>`), and few examples
+require `Eigen <http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/>`_, a C++ template
+library for linear algebra: matrices, vectors, numerical solvers, and related
+algorithms.
+
+The following examples require `Eigen <http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/>`_ version ≥ 3.1.0:
+
+.. only:: builder_html
+
+ * :download:`alpha_complex_diagram_persistence_from_off_file_example.py <../example/alpha_complex_diagram_persistence_from_off_file_example.py>`
+ * :download:`alpha_complex_from_points_example.py <../example/alpha_complex_from_points_example.py>`
+ * :download:`tangential_complex_plain_homology_from_off_file_example.py <../example/tangential_complex_plain_homology_from_off_file_example.py>`
+ * :download:`euclidean_strong_witness_complex_diagram_persistence_from_off_file_example.py <../example/euclidean_strong_witness_complex_diagram_persistence_from_off_file_example.py>`
+ * :download:`euclidean_witness_complex_diagram_persistence_from_off_file_example.py <../example/euclidean_witness_complex_diagram_persistence_from_off_file_example.py>`
+
+Matplotlib
+==========
+
+The :doc:`persistence graphical tools </persistence_graphical_tools_user>`
+module requires `Matplotlib <http://matplotlib.org>`_, a Python 2D plotting
+library which produces publication quality figures in a variety of hardcopy
+formats and interactive environments across platforms.
+
+The following examples require the `Matplotlib <http://matplotlib.org>`_:
+
+.. only:: builder_html
+
+ * :download:`alpha_complex_diagram_persistence_from_off_file_example.py <../example/alpha_complex_diagram_persistence_from_off_file_example.py>`
+ * :download:`gudhi_graphical_tools_example.py <../example/gudhi_graphical_tools_example.py>`
+ * :download:`periodic_cubical_complex_barcode_persistence_from_perseus_file_example.py <../example/periodic_cubical_complex_barcode_persistence_from_perseus_file_example.py>`
+ * :download:`rips_complex_diagram_persistence_from_off_file_example.py <../example/rips_complex_diagram_persistence_from_off_file_example.py>`
+ * :download:`rips_persistence_diagram.py <../example/rips_persistence_diagram.py>`
+ * :download:`rips_complex_diagram_persistence_from_distance_matrix_file_example.py <../example/rips_complex_diagram_persistence_from_distance_matrix_file_example.py>`
+ * :download:`tangential_complex_plain_homology_from_off_file_example.py <../example/tangential_complex_plain_homology_from_off_file_example.py>`
+ * :download:`euclidean_strong_witness_complex_diagram_persistence_from_off_file_example.py <../example/euclidean_strong_witness_complex_diagram_persistence_from_off_file_example.py>`
+ * :download:`euclidean_witness_complex_diagram_persistence_from_off_file_example.py <../example/euclidean_witness_complex_diagram_persistence_from_off_file_example.py>`
+
+SciPy
+=====
+
+The :doc:`persistence graphical tools </persistence_graphical_tools_user>`
+module requires `SciPy <http://scipy.org>`_, a Python-based ecosystem of
+open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering.
+
+Threading Building Blocks
+=========================
+
+`Intel® TBB <https://www.threadingbuildingblocks.org/>`_ lets you easily write
+parallel C++ programs that take full advantage of multicore performance, that
+are portable and composable, and that have future-proof scalability.
+
+Having Intel® TBB installed is recommended to parallelize and accelerate some
+GUDHI computations.
+
+Bug reports and contributions
+*****************************
+
+Please help us improving the quality of the GUDHI library. You may report bugs or suggestions to:
+
+ Contact: gudhi-users@lists.gforge.inria.fr
+
+GUDHI is open to external contributions. If you want to join our development team, please contact us.
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+
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+
+================================
+Cover complexes reference manual
+================================
+
+.. autoclass:: gudhi.CoverComplex
+ :members:
+ :undoc-members:
+ :show-inheritance:
+
+ .. automethod:: gudhi.CoverComplex.__init__
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+.. table::
+ :widths: 30 50 20
+
+ +----------------------------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------+
+ | .. figure:: | Nerves and Graph Induced Complexes are cover complexes, i.e. | :Author: Mathieu Carrière |
+ | ../../doc/Nerve_GIC/gicvisu.jpg | simplicial complexes that provably contain topological information | |
+ | :alt: Graph Induced Complex of a point cloud. | about the input data. They can be computed with a cover of the data, | :Introduced in: GUDHI 2.3.0 |
+ | :figclass: align-center | that comes i.e. from the preimage of a family of intervals covering | |
+ | | the image of a scalar-valued function defined on the data. | :Copyright: MIT (`GPL v3 </licensing/>`_) |
+ | | | |
+ | | | :Requires: `CGAL <installation.html#cgal>`__ :math:`\geq` 4.11.0 |
+ | | | |
+ | | | |
+ +----------------------------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------+
+ | * :doc:`nerve_gic_complex_user` | * :doc:`nerve_gic_complex_ref` |
+ +----------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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+
+.. To get rid of WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
+
+Cover complexes user manual
+===========================
+Definition
+----------
+
+.. include:: nerve_gic_complex_sum.inc
+
+Visualizations of the simplicial complexes can be done with either
+neato (from `graphviz <http://www.graphviz.org/>`_),
+`geomview <http://www.geomview.org/>`_,
+`KeplerMapper <https://github.com/MLWave/kepler-mapper>`_.
+Input point clouds are assumed to be OFF files (cf. :doc:`fileformats`).
+
+Covers
+------
+
+Nerves and Graph Induced Complexes require a cover C of the input point cloud P,
+that is a set of subsets of P whose union is P itself.
+Very often, this cover is obtained from the preimage of a family of intervals covering
+the image of some scalar-valued function f defined on P. This family is parameterized
+by its resolution, which can be either the number or the length of the intervals,
+and its gain, which is the overlap percentage between consecutive intervals (ordered by their first values).
+
+Nerves
+------
+
+Nerve definition
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Assume you are given a cover C of your point cloud P. Then, the Nerve of this cover
+is the simplicial complex that has one k-simplex per k-fold intersection of cover elements.
+See also `Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerve_of_a_covering>`_.
+
+.. figure::
+ ../../doc/Nerve_GIC/nerve.png
+ :figclass: align-center
+ :alt: Nerve of a double torus
+
+ Nerve of a double torus
+
+Example
+^^^^^^^
+
+This example builds the Nerve of a point cloud sampled on a 3D human shape (human.off).
+The cover C comes from the preimages of intervals (10 intervals with gain 0.3)
+covering the height function (coordinate 2),
+which are then refined into their connected components using the triangulation of the .OFF file.
+
+.. testcode::
+
+ import gudhi
+ nerve_complex = gudhi.CoverComplex()
+ nerve_complex.set_verbose(True)
+
+ if (nerve_complex.read_point_cloud(gudhi.__root_source_dir__ + \
+ '/data/points/human.off')):
+ nerve_complex.set_type('Nerve')
+ nerve_complex.set_color_from_coordinate(2)
+ nerve_complex.set_function_from_coordinate(2)
+ nerve_complex.set_graph_from_OFF()
+ nerve_complex.set_resolution_with_interval_number(10)
+ nerve_complex.set_gain(0.3)
+ nerve_complex.set_cover_from_function()
+ nerve_complex.find_simplices()
+ nerve_complex.write_info()
+ simplex_tree = nerve_complex.create_simplex_tree()
+ nerve_complex.compute_PD()
+ result_str = 'Nerve is of dimension ' + repr(simplex_tree.dimension()) + ' - ' + \
+ repr(simplex_tree.num_simplices()) + ' simplices - ' + \
+ repr(simplex_tree.num_vertices()) + ' vertices.'
+ print(result_str)
+ for filtered_value in simplex_tree.get_filtration():
+ print(filtered_value[0])
+
+the program output is:
+
+.. code-block:: none
+
+ Min function value = -0.979672 and Max function value = 0.816414
+ Interval 0 = [-0.979672, -0.761576]
+ Interval 1 = [-0.838551, -0.581967]
+ Interval 2 = [-0.658942, -0.402359]
+ Interval 3 = [-0.479334, -0.22275]
+ Interval 4 = [-0.299725, -0.0431414]
+ Interval 5 = [-0.120117, 0.136467]
+ Interval 6 = [0.059492, 0.316076]
+ Interval 7 = [0.239101, 0.495684]
+ Interval 8 = [0.418709, 0.675293]
+ Interval 9 = [0.598318, 0.816414]
+ Computing preimages...
+ Computing connected components...
+ 5 interval(s) in dimension 0:
+ [-0.909111, 0.0081753]
+ [-0.171433, 0.367393]
+ [-0.171433, 0.367393]
+ [-0.909111, 0.745853]
+ 0 interval(s) in dimension 1:
+
+.. testoutput::
+
+ Nerve is of dimension 1 - 41 simplices - 21 vertices.
+ [0]
+ [1]
+ [4]
+ [1, 4]
+ [2]
+ [0, 2]
+ [8]
+ [2, 8]
+ [5]
+ [4, 5]
+ [9]
+ [8, 9]
+ [13]
+ [5, 13]
+ [14]
+ [9, 14]
+ [19]
+ [13, 19]
+ [25]
+ [32]
+ [20]
+ [20, 32]
+ [33]
+ [25, 33]
+ [26]
+ [14, 26]
+ [19, 26]
+ [42]
+ [26, 42]
+ [34]
+ [33, 34]
+ [27]
+ [20, 27]
+ [35]
+ [27, 35]
+ [34, 35]
+ [35, 42]
+ [44]
+ [35, 44]
+ [54]
+ [44, 54]
+
+
+The program also writes a file ../../data/points/human.off_sc.txt. The first
+three lines in this file are the location of the input point cloud and the
+function used to compute the cover.
+The fourth line contains the number of vertices nv and edges ne of the Nerve.
+The next nv lines represent the vertices. Each line contains the vertex ID,
+the number of data points it contains, and their average color function value.
+Finally, the next ne lines represent the edges, characterized by the ID of
+their vertices.
+
+Using KeplerMapper, one can obtain the following visualization:
+
+.. figure::
+ ../../doc/Nerve_GIC/nervevisu.jpg
+ :figclass: align-center
+ :alt: Visualization with KeplerMapper
+
+ Visualization with KeplerMapper
+
+Graph Induced Complexes (GIC)
+-----------------------------
+
+GIC definition
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Again, assume you are given a cover C of your point cloud P. Moreover, assume
+you are also given a graph G built on top of P. Then, for any clique in G
+whose nodes all belong to different elements of C, the GIC includes a
+corresponding simplex, whose dimension is the number of nodes in the clique
+minus one.
+See :cite:`Dey13` for more details.
+
+.. figure::
+ ../../doc/Nerve_GIC/GIC.jpg
+ :figclass: align-center
+ :alt: GIC of a point cloud
+
+ GIC of a point cloud
+
+Example with cover from Voronoï
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+This example builds the GIC of a point cloud sampled on a 3D human shape
+(human.off).
+We randomly subsampled 100 points in the point cloud, which act as seeds of
+a geodesic Voronoï diagram. Each cell of the diagram is then an element of C.
+The graph G (used to compute both the geodesics for Voronoï and the GIC)
+comes from the triangulation of the human shape. Note that the resulting
+simplicial complex is in dimension 3 in this example.
+
+.. testcode::
+
+ import gudhi
+ nerve_complex = gudhi.CoverComplex()
+
+ if (nerve_complex.read_point_cloud(gudhi.__root_source_dir__ + \
+ '/data/points/human.off')):
+ nerve_complex.set_type('GIC')
+ nerve_complex.set_color_from_coordinate()
+ nerve_complex.set_graph_from_OFF()
+ nerve_complex.set_cover_from_Voronoi(700)
+ nerve_complex.find_simplices()
+ nerve_complex.plot_off()
+
+the program outputs SC.off. Using e.g.
+
+.. code-block:: none
+
+ geomview ../../data/points/human.off_sc.off
+
+one can obtain the following visualization:
+
+.. figure::
+ ../../doc/Nerve_GIC/gicvoronoivisu.jpg
+ :figclass: align-center
+ :alt: Visualization with Geomview
+
+ Visualization with Geomview
+
+Functional GIC
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+If one restricts to the cliques in G whose nodes all belong to preimages of
+consecutive intervals (assuming the cover of the height function is minimal,
+i.e. no more than two intervals can intersect at a time), the GIC is of
+dimension one, i.e. a graph.
+We call this graph the functional GIC. See :cite:`Carriere16` for more details.
+
+Example
+^^^^^^^
+
+Functional GIC comes with automatic selection of the Rips threshold,
+the resolution and the gain of the function cover. See :cite:`Carriere17c` for
+more details. In this example, we compute the functional GIC of a Klein bottle
+embedded in R^5, where the graph G comes from a Rips complex with automatic
+threshold, and the cover C comes from the preimages of intervals covering the
+first coordinate, with automatic resolution and gain. Note that automatic
+threshold, resolution and gain can be computed as well for the Nerve.
+
+.. testcode::
+
+ import gudhi
+ nerve_complex = gudhi.CoverComplex()
+
+ if (nerve_complex.read_point_cloud(gudhi.__root_source_dir__ + \
+ '/data/points/KleinBottle5D.off')):
+ nerve_complex.set_type('GIC')
+ nerve_complex.set_color_from_coordinate(0)
+ nerve_complex.set_function_from_coordinate(0)
+ nerve_complex.set_graph_from_automatic_rips()
+ nerve_complex.set_automatic_resolution()
+ nerve_complex.set_gain()
+ nerve_complex.set_cover_from_function()
+ nerve_complex.find_simplices()
+ nerve_complex.plot_dot()
+
+the program outputs SC.dot. Using e.g.
+
+.. code-block:: none
+
+ neato ../../data/points/KleinBottle5D.off_sc.dot -Tpdf -o ../../data/points/KleinBottle5D.off_sc.pdf
+
+one can obtain the following visualization:
+
+.. figure::
+ ../../doc/Nerve_GIC/coordGICvisu2.jpg
+ :figclass: align-center
+ :alt: Visualization with neato
+
+ Visualization with neato
+
+where nodes are colored by the filter function values and, for each node, the
+first number is its ID and the second is the number of data points that its
+contain.
+
+We also provide an example on a set of 72 pictures taken around the same object
+(lucky_cat.off).
+The function is now the first eigenfunction given by PCA, whose values are
+written in a file (lucky_cat_PCA1). Threshold, resolution and gain are
+automatically selected as before.
+
+.. testcode::
+
+ import gudhi
+ nerve_complex = gudhi.CoverComplex()
+
+ if (nerve_complex.read_point_cloud(gudhi.__root_source_dir__ + \
+ '/data/points/COIL_database/lucky_cat.off')):
+ nerve_complex.set_type('GIC')
+ pca_file = gudhi.__root_source_dir__ + \
+ '/data/points/COIL_database/lucky_cat_PCA1'
+ nerve_complex.set_color_from_file(pca_file)
+ nerve_complex.set_function_from_file(pca_file)
+ nerve_complex.set_graph_from_automatic_rips()
+ nerve_complex.set_automatic_resolution()
+ nerve_complex.set_gain()
+ nerve_complex.set_cover_from_function()
+ nerve_complex.find_simplices()
+ nerve_complex.plot_dot()
+
+the program outputs again SC.dot which gives the following visualization after using neato:
+
+.. figure::
+ ../../doc/Nerve_GIC/funcGICvisu.jpg
+ :figclass: align-center
+ :alt: Visualization with neato
+
+ Visualization with neato
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+:orphan:
+
+.. To get rid of WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
+
+Periodic cubical complex reference manual
+#########################################
+
+.. autoclass:: gudhi.PeriodicCubicalComplex
+ :members:
+ :undoc-members:
+ :show-inheritance:
+
+ .. automethod:: gudhi.PeriodicCubicalComplex.__init__
diff --git a/src/python/doc/persistence_graphical_tools_ref.rst b/src/python/doc/persistence_graphical_tools_ref.rst
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+:orphan:
+
+.. To get rid of WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
+
+============================================
+Persistence graphical tools reference manual
+============================================
+
+.. autofunction:: gudhi.plot_persistence_barcode
+.. autofunction:: gudhi.plot_persistence_diagram
+.. autofunction:: gudhi.plot_persistence_density
diff --git a/src/python/doc/persistence_graphical_tools_sum.inc b/src/python/doc/persistence_graphical_tools_sum.inc
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+.. table::
+ :widths: 30 50 20
+
+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+
+ | .. figure:: | These graphical tools comes on top of persistence results and allows | :Author: Vincent Rouvreau |
+ | img/graphical_tools_representation.png | the user to build easily persistence barcode, diagram or density. | |
+ | | | :Introduced in: GUDHI 2.0.0 |
+ | | | |
+ | | | :Copyright: MIT |
+ | | | |
+ | | | :Requires: matplotlib, numpy and scipy |
+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+
+ | * :doc:`persistence_graphical_tools_user` | * :doc:`persistence_graphical_tools_ref` |
+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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+:orphan:
+
+.. To get rid of WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
+
+Persistence graphical tools user manual
+=======================================
+Definition
+----------
+.. include:: persistence_graphical_tools_sum.inc
+
+
+Show persistence as a barcode
+-----------------------------
+
+.. note::
+ this function requires matplotlib and numpy to be available
+
+This function can display the persistence result as a barcode:
+
+.. plot::
+ :include-source:
+
+ import gudhi
+
+ off_file = gudhi.__root_source_dir__ + '/data/points/tore3D_300.off'
+ point_cloud = gudhi.read_off(off_file=off_file)
+
+ rips_complex = gudhi.RipsComplex(points=point_cloud, max_edge_length=0.7)
+ simplex_tree = rips_complex.create_simplex_tree(max_dimension=3)
+ diag = simplex_tree.persistence(min_persistence=0.4)
+
+ plot = gudhi.plot_persistence_barcode(diag)
+ plot.show()
+
+Show persistence as a diagram
+-----------------------------
+
+.. note::
+ this function requires matplotlib and numpy to be available
+
+This function can display the persistence result as a diagram:
+
+.. plot::
+ :include-source:
+
+ import gudhi
+
+ # rips_on_tore3D_1307.pers obtained from write_persistence_diagram method
+ persistence_file=gudhi.__root_source_dir__ + \
+ '/data/persistence_diagram/rips_on_tore3D_1307.pers'
+ plt = gudhi.plot_persistence_diagram(persistence_file=persistence_file,
+ legend=True)
+ plt.show()
+
+Persistence density
+-------------------
+
+.. note::
+ this function requires matplotlib, numpy and scipy to be available
+
+If you want more information on a specific dimension, for instance:
+
+.. plot::
+ :include-source:
+
+ import gudhi
+
+ # rips_on_tore3D_1307.pers obtained from write_persistence_diagram method
+ persistence_file=gudhi.__root_source_dir__ + \
+ '/data/persistence_diagram/rips_on_tore3D_1307.pers'
+ plt = gudhi.plot_persistence_density(persistence_file=persistence_file,
+ max_intervals=0, dimension=1, legend=True)
+ plt.show()
diff --git a/src/python/doc/persistent_cohomology_sum.inc b/src/python/doc/persistent_cohomology_sum.inc
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+.. table::
+ :widths: 30 50 20
+
+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+
+ | .. figure:: | The theory of homology consists in attaching to a topological space | :Author: Clément Maria |
+ | ../../doc/Persistent_cohomology/3DTorus_poch.png | a sequence of (homology) groups, capturing global topological | |
+ | :figclass: align-center | features like connected components, holes, cavities, etc. Persistent | :Introduced in: GUDHI 2.0.0 |
+ | | homology studies the evolution -- birth, life and death -- of these | |
+ | Rips Persistent Cohomology on a 3D | features when the topological space is changing. Consequently, the | :Copyright: MIT |
+ | Torus | theory is essentially composed of three elements: topological spaces, | |
+ | | their homology groups and an evolution scheme. | |
+ | | | |
+ | | Computation of persistent cohomology using the algorithm of | |
+ | | :cite:`DBLP:journals/dcg/SilvaMV11` and | |
+ | | :cite:`DBLP:journals/corr/abs-1208-5018` and the Compressed | |
+ | | Annotation Matrix implementation of | |
+ | | :cite:`DBLP:conf/esa/BoissonnatDM13`. | |
+ | | | |
+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+
+ | * :doc:`persistent_cohomology_user` | Please refer to each data structure that contains persistence |
+ | | feature for reference: |
+ | | |
+ | | * :doc:`simplex_tree_ref` |
+ | | * :doc:`cubical_complex_ref` |
+ | | * :doc:`periodic_cubical_complex_ref` |
+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
diff --git a/src/python/doc/persistent_cohomology_user.rst b/src/python/doc/persistent_cohomology_user.rst
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+:orphan:
+
+.. To get rid of WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
+
+Persistent cohomology user manual
+=================================
+Definition
+----------
+===================================== ===================================== =====================================
+:Author: Clément Maria :Introduced in: GUDHI PYTHON 2.0.0 :Copyright: GPL v3
+===================================== ===================================== =====================================
+
++-----------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| :doc:`persistent_cohomology_user` | Please refer to each data structure that contains persistence |
+| | feature for reference: |
+| | |
+| | * :doc:`simplex_tree_ref` |
+| | * :doc:`cubical_complex_ref` |
+| | * :doc:`periodic_cubical_complex_ref` |
++-----------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
+
+
+Computation of persistent cohomology using the algorithm of :cite:`DBLP:journals/dcg/SilvaMV11` and
+:cite:`DBLP:journals/corr/abs-1208-5018` and the Compressed Annotation Matrix implementation of
+:cite:`DBLP:conf/esa/BoissonnatDM13`.
+
+The theory of homology consists in attaching to a topological space a sequence of (homology) groups, capturing global
+topological features like connected components, holes, cavities, etc. Persistent homology studies the evolution --
+birth, life and death -- of these features when the topological space is changing. Consequently, the theory is
+essentially composed of three elements:
+
+* topological spaces
+* their homology groups
+* an evolution scheme.
+
+Topological Spaces
+------------------
+
+Topological spaces are represented by simplicial complexes.
+Let :math:`V = \{1, \cdots ,|V|\}` be a set of *vertices*.
+A *simplex* :math:`\sigma` is a subset of vertices :math:`\sigma \subseteq V`.
+A *simplicial complex* :math:`\mathbf{K}` on :math:`V` is a collection of simplices :math:`\{\sigma\}`,
+:math:`\sigma \subseteq V`, such that :math:`\tau \subseteq \sigma \in \mathbf{K} \Rightarrow \tau \in \mathbf{K}`.
+The dimension :math:`n=|\sigma|-1` of :math:`\sigma` is its number of elements minus 1.
+A *filtration* of a simplicial complex is a function :math:`f:\mathbf{K} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}` satisfying
+:math:`f(\tau)\leq f(\sigma)` whenever :math:`\tau \subseteq \sigma`.
+
+Homology
+--------
+
+For a ring :math:`\mathcal{R}`, the group of *n-chains*, denoted :math:`\mathbf{C}_n(\mathbf{K},\mathcal{R})`, of
+:math:`\mathbf{K}` is the group of formal sums of n-simplices with :math:`\mathcal{R}` coefficients. The
+*boundary operator* is a linear operator
+:math:`\partial_n: \mathbf{C}_n(\mathbf{K},\mathcal{R}) \rightarrow \mathbf{C}_{n-1}(\mathbf{K},\mathcal{R})`
+such that :math:`\partial_n \sigma = \partial_n [v_0, \cdots , v_n] = \sum_{i=0}^n (-1)^{i}[v_0,\cdots ,\widehat{v_i}, \cdots,v_n]`,
+where :math:`\widehat{v_i}` means :math:`v_i` is omitted from the list. The chain groups form a sequence:
+
+.. math::
+
+ \cdots \ \ \mathbf{C}_n(\mathbf{K},\mathcal{R}) \xrightarrow{\ \partial_n\ }
+ \mathbf{C}_{n-1}(\mathbf{K},\mathcal{R}) \xrightarrow{\partial_{n-1}} \cdots \xrightarrow{\ \partial_2 \ }
+ \mathbf{C}_1(\mathbf{K},\mathcal{R}) \xrightarrow{\ \partial_1 \ } \mathbf{C}_0(\mathbf{K},\mathcal{R})
+
+of finitely many groups :math:`\mathbf{C}_n(\mathbf{K},\mathcal{R})` and homomorphisms :math:`\partial_n`, indexed by
+the dimension :math:`n \geq 0`. The boundary operators satisfy the property :math:`\partial_n \circ \partial_{n+1}=0`
+for every :math:`n > 0` and we define the homology groups:
+
+.. math::
+
+ \mathbf{H}_n(\mathbf{K},\mathcal{R}) = \ker \partial_n / \mathrm{im} \ \partial_{n+1}
+
+We refer to :cite:`Munkres-elementsalgtop1984` for an introduction to homology
+theory and to :cite:`DBLP:books/daglib/0025666` for an introduction to persistent homology.
+
+Indexing Scheme
+---------------
+
+"Changing" a simplicial complex consists in applying a simplicial map. An *indexing scheme* is a directed graph
+together with a traversal order, such that two consecutive nodes in the graph are connected by an arrow (either forward
+or backward).
+The nodes represent simplicial complexes and the directed edges simplicial maps.
+
+From the computational point of view, there are two types of indexing schemes of interest in persistent homology:
+
+* linear ones
+ :math:`\bullet \longrightarrow \bullet \longrightarrow \cdots \longrightarrow \bullet \longrightarrow \bullet`
+ in persistent homology :cite:`DBLP:journals/dcg/ZomorodianC05`,
+* zigzag ones
+ :math:`\bullet \longrightarrow \bullet \longleftarrow \cdots \longrightarrow \bullet \longleftarrow \bullet`
+ in zigzag persistent homology :cite:`DBLP:journals/focm/CarlssonS10`.
+
+These indexing schemes have a natural left-to-right traversal order, and we describe them with ranges and iterators.
+In the current release of the Gudhi library, only the linear case is implemented.
+
+In the following, we consider the case where the indexing scheme is induced by a filtration.
+
+Ordering the simplices by increasing filtration values (breaking ties so as a simplex appears after its subsimplices of
+same filtration value) provides an indexing scheme.
+
+Examples
+--------
+
+We provide several example files: run these examples with -h for details on their use.
+
+.. only:: builder_html
+
+ * :download:`alpha_complex_diagram_persistence_from_off_file_example.py <../example/alpha_complex_diagram_persistence_from_off_file_example.py>`
+ * :download:`periodic_cubical_complex_barcode_persistence_from_perseus_file_example.py <../example/periodic_cubical_complex_barcode_persistence_from_perseus_file_example.py>`
+ * :download:`rips_complex_diagram_persistence_from_off_file_example.py <../example/rips_complex_diagram_persistence_from_off_file_example.py>`
+ * :download:`rips_persistence_diagram.py <../example/rips_persistence_diagram.py>`
+ * :download:`rips_complex_diagram_persistence_from_distance_matrix_file_example.py <../example/rips_complex_diagram_persistence_from_distance_matrix_file_example.py>`
+ * :download:`random_cubical_complex_persistence_example.py <../example/random_cubical_complex_persistence_example.py>`
+ * :download:`tangential_complex_plain_homology_from_off_file_example.py <../example/tangential_complex_plain_homology_from_off_file_example.py>`
+
+Bibliography
+============
+
+.. bibliography:: ../../biblio/bibliography.bib
+ :filter: docnames
+ :style: unsrt
diff --git a/src/python/doc/python3-sphinx-build.py b/src/python/doc/python3-sphinx-build.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+"""
+Emulate sphinx-build for python3
+"""
+
+from sys import exit, argv
+from sphinx import main
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+ exit(main(argv))
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+:orphan:
+
+.. To get rid of WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
+
+=============================
+Reader utils reference manual
+=============================
+
+.. autofunction:: gudhi.read_off
+
+.. autofunction:: gudhi.read_lower_triangular_matrix_from_csv_file
+
+.. autofunction:: gudhi.read_persistence_intervals_grouped_by_dimension
+
+.. autofunction:: gudhi.read_persistence_intervals_in_dimension
diff --git a/src/python/doc/rips_complex_ref.rst b/src/python/doc/rips_complex_ref.rst
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+:orphan:
+
+.. To get rid of WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
+
+=============================
+Rips complex reference manual
+=============================
+
+.. autoclass:: gudhi.RipsComplex
+ :members:
+ :undoc-members:
+ :show-inheritance:
+
+ .. automethod:: gudhi.RipsComplex.__init__
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+.. table::
+ :widths: 30 50 20
+
+ +----------------------------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
+ | .. figure:: | Rips complex is a simplicial complex constructed from a one skeleton | :Authors: Clément Maria, Pawel Dlotko, Vincent Rouvreau, Marc Glisse |
+ | ../../doc/Rips_complex/rips_complex_representation.png | graph. | |
+ | :figclass: align-center | | :Introduced in: GUDHI 2.0.0 |
+ | | The filtration value of each edge is computed from a user-given | |
+ | | distance function and is inserted until a user-given threshold | :Copyright: MIT |
+ | | value. | |
+ | | | |
+ | | This complex can be built from a point cloud and a distance function, | |
+ | | or from a distance matrix. | |
+ +----------------------------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
+ | * :doc:`rips_complex_user` | * :doc:`rips_complex_ref` |
+ +----------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
diff --git a/src/python/doc/rips_complex_user.rst b/src/python/doc/rips_complex_user.rst
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+:orphan:
+
+.. To get rid of WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
+
+Rips complex user manual
+=========================
+Definition
+----------
+
+==================================================================== ================================ ======================
+:Authors: Clément Maria, Pawel Dlotko, Vincent Rouvreau, Marc Glisse :Introduced in: GUDHI 2.0.0 :Copyright: GPL v3
+==================================================================== ================================ ======================
+
++-------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| :doc:`rips_complex_user` | :doc:`rips_complex_ref` |
++-------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
+
+The `Rips complex <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietoris%E2%80%93Rips_complex>`_ is a simplicial complex that
+generalizes proximity (:math:`\varepsilon`-ball) graphs to higher dimensions. The vertices correspond to the input
+points, and a simplex is present if and only if its diameter is smaller than some parameter α. Considering all
+parameters α defines a filtered simplicial complex, where the filtration value of a simplex is its diameter.
+The filtration can be restricted to values α smaller than some threshold, to reduce its size. Beware that some
+people define the Rips complex using a bound of 2α instead of α, particularly when comparing it to an ambient
+Čech complex. They end up with the same combinatorial object, but filtration values which are half of ours.
+
+The input discrete metric space can be provided as a point cloud plus a distance function, or as a distance matrix.
+
+When creating a simplicial complex from the graph, :doc:`RipsComplex <rips_complex_ref>` first builds the graph and
+inserts it into the data structure. It then expands the simplicial complex (adds the simplices corresponding to cliques)
+when required. The expansion can be stopped at dimension `max_dimension`, by default 1.
+
+A vertex name corresponds to the index of the point in the given range (aka. the point cloud).
+
+.. figure::
+ ../../doc/Rips_complex/rips_complex_representation.png
+ :align: center
+
+ Rips-complex one skeleton graph representation
+
+On this example, as edges (4,5), (4,6) and (5,6) are in the complex, simplex (4,5,6) is added with the filtration value
+set with :math:`max(filtration(4,5), filtration(4,6), filtration(5,6))`. And so on for simplex (0,1,2,3).
+
+If the `RipsComplex` interfaces are not detailed enough for your need, please refer to rips_persistence_step_by_step.cpp
+C++ example, where the graph construction over the Simplex_tree is more detailed.
+
+A Rips complex can easily become huge, even if we limit the length of the edges
+and the dimension of the simplices. One easy trick, before building a Rips
+complex on a point cloud, is to call `sparsify_point_set` which removes points
+that are too close to each other. This does not change its persistence diagram
+by more than the length used to define "too close".
+
+A more general technique is to use a sparse approximation of the Rips
+introduced by Don Sheehy :cite:`sheehy13linear`. We are using the version
+described in :cite:`buchet16efficient` (except that we multiply all filtration
+values by 2, to match the usual Rips complex). :cite:`cavanna15geometric` proves
+a :math:`\frac{1}{1-\varepsilon}`-interleaving, although in practice the
+error is usually smaller. A more intuitive presentation of the idea is
+available in :cite:`cavanna15geometric`, and in a video
+:cite:`cavanna15visualizing`. Passing an extra argument `sparse=0.3` at the
+construction of a `RipsComplex` object asks it to build a sparse Rips with
+parameter :math:`\varepsilon=0.3`, while the default `sparse=None` builds the
+regular Rips complex.
+
+
+Point cloud
+-----------
+
+Example from a point cloud
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+This example builds the neighborhood graph from the given points, up to max_edge_length.
+Then it creates a :doc:`Simplex_tree <simplex_tree_ref>` with it.
+
+Finally, it is asked to display information about the simplicial complex.
+
+.. testcode::
+
+ import gudhi
+ rips_complex = gudhi.RipsComplex(points=[[1, 1], [7, 0], [4, 6], [9, 6], [0, 14], [2, 19], [9, 17]],
+ max_edge_length=12.0)
+
+ simplex_tree = rips_complex.create_simplex_tree(max_dimension=1)
+ result_str = 'Rips complex is of dimension ' + repr(simplex_tree.dimension()) + ' - ' + \
+ repr(simplex_tree.num_simplices()) + ' simplices - ' + \
+ repr(simplex_tree.num_vertices()) + ' vertices.'
+ print(result_str)
+ fmt = '%s -> %.2f'
+ for filtered_value in simplex_tree.get_filtration():
+ print(fmt % tuple(filtered_value))
+
+When launching (Rips maximal distance between 2 points is 12.0, is expanded
+until dimension 1 - one skeleton graph in other words), the output is:
+
+.. testoutput::
+
+ Rips complex is of dimension 1 - 18 simplices - 7 vertices.
+ [0] -> 0.00
+ [1] -> 0.00
+ [2] -> 0.00
+ [3] -> 0.00
+ [4] -> 0.00
+ [5] -> 0.00
+ [6] -> 0.00
+ [2, 3] -> 5.00
+ [4, 5] -> 5.39
+ [0, 2] -> 5.83
+ [0, 1] -> 6.08
+ [1, 3] -> 6.32
+ [1, 2] -> 6.71
+ [5, 6] -> 7.28
+ [2, 4] -> 8.94
+ [0, 3] -> 9.43
+ [4, 6] -> 9.49
+ [3, 6] -> 11.00
+
+Notice that if we use
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+ rips_complex = gudhi.RipsComplex(points=[[1, 1], [7, 0], [4, 6], [9, 6], [0, 14], [2, 19], [9, 17]],
+ max_edge_length=12.0, sparse=2)
+
+asking for a very sparse version (theory only gives some guarantee on the meaning of the output if `sparse<1`),
+2 to 5 edges disappear, depending on the random vertex used to start the sparsification.
+
+Example from OFF file
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+This example builds the :doc:`RipsComplex <rips_complex_ref>` from the given
+points in an OFF file, and max_edge_length value.
+Then it creates a :doc:`Simplex_tree <simplex_tree_ref>` with it.
+
+Finally, it is asked to display information about the Rips complex.
+
+
+.. testcode::
+
+ import gudhi
+ point_cloud = gudhi.read_off(off_file=gudhi.__root_source_dir__ + '/data/points/alphacomplexdoc.off')
+ rips_complex = gudhi.RipsComplex(points=point_cloud, max_edge_length=12.0)
+ simplex_tree = rips_complex.create_simplex_tree(max_dimension=1)
+ result_str = 'Rips complex is of dimension ' + repr(simplex_tree.dimension()) + ' - ' + \
+ repr(simplex_tree.num_simplices()) + ' simplices - ' + \
+ repr(simplex_tree.num_vertices()) + ' vertices.'
+ print(result_str)
+ fmt = '%s -> %.2f'
+ for filtered_value in simplex_tree.get_filtration():
+ print(fmt % tuple(filtered_value))
+
+the program output is:
+
+.. testoutput::
+
+ Rips complex is of dimension 1 - 18 simplices - 7 vertices.
+ [0] -> 0.00
+ [1] -> 0.00
+ [2] -> 0.00
+ [3] -> 0.00
+ [4] -> 0.00
+ [5] -> 0.00
+ [6] -> 0.00
+ [2, 3] -> 5.00
+ [4, 5] -> 5.39
+ [0, 2] -> 5.83
+ [0, 1] -> 6.08
+ [1, 3] -> 6.32
+ [1, 2] -> 6.71
+ [5, 6] -> 7.28
+ [2, 4] -> 8.94
+ [0, 3] -> 9.43
+ [4, 6] -> 9.49
+ [3, 6] -> 11.00
+
+Distance matrix
+---------------
+
+Example from a distance matrix
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+This example builds the one skeleton graph from the given distance matrix, and max_edge_length value.
+Then it creates a :doc:`Simplex_tree <simplex_tree_ref>` with it.
+
+Finally, it is asked to display information about the simplicial complex.
+
+.. testcode::
+
+ import gudhi
+ rips_complex = gudhi.RipsComplex(distance_matrix=[[],
+ [6.0827625303],
+ [5.8309518948, 6.7082039325],
+ [9.4339811321, 6.3245553203, 5],
+ [13.0384048104, 15.6524758425, 8.94427191, 12.0415945788],
+ [18.0277563773, 19.6468827044, 13.152946438, 14.7648230602, 5.3851648071],
+ [17.88854382, 17.1172427686, 12.0830459736, 11, 9.4868329805, 7.2801098893]],
+ max_edge_length=12.0)
+
+ simplex_tree = rips_complex.create_simplex_tree(max_dimension=1)
+ result_str = 'Rips complex is of dimension ' + repr(simplex_tree.dimension()) + ' - ' + \
+ repr(simplex_tree.num_simplices()) + ' simplices - ' + \
+ repr(simplex_tree.num_vertices()) + ' vertices.'
+ print(result_str)
+ fmt = '%s -> %.2f'
+ for filtered_value in simplex_tree.get_filtration():
+ print(fmt % tuple(filtered_value))
+
+When launching (Rips maximal distance between 2 points is 12.0, is expanded
+until dimension 1 - one skeleton graph in other words), the output is:
+
+.. testoutput::
+
+ Rips complex is of dimension 1 - 18 simplices - 7 vertices.
+ [0] -> 0.00
+ [1] -> 0.00
+ [2] -> 0.00
+ [3] -> 0.00
+ [4] -> 0.00
+ [5] -> 0.00
+ [6] -> 0.00
+ [2, 3] -> 5.00
+ [4, 5] -> 5.39
+ [0, 2] -> 5.83
+ [0, 1] -> 6.08
+ [1, 3] -> 6.32
+ [1, 2] -> 6.71
+ [5, 6] -> 7.28
+ [2, 4] -> 8.94
+ [0, 3] -> 9.43
+ [4, 6] -> 9.49
+ [3, 6] -> 11.00
+
+Example from csv file
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+This example builds the :doc:`RipsComplex <rips_complex_ref>` from the given
+distance matrix in a csv file, and max_edge_length value.
+Then it creates a :doc:`Simplex_tree <simplex_tree_ref>` with it.
+
+Finally, it is asked to display information about the Rips complex.
+
+
+.. testcode::
+
+ import gudhi
+ distance_matrix = gudhi.read_lower_triangular_matrix_from_csv_file(csv_file=gudhi.__root_source_dir__ + \
+ '/data/distance_matrix/full_square_distance_matrix.csv')
+ rips_complex = gudhi.RipsComplex(distance_matrix=distance_matrix, max_edge_length=12.0)
+ simplex_tree = rips_complex.create_simplex_tree(max_dimension=1)
+ result_str = 'Rips complex is of dimension ' + repr(simplex_tree.dimension()) + ' - ' + \
+ repr(simplex_tree.num_simplices()) + ' simplices - ' + \
+ repr(simplex_tree.num_vertices()) + ' vertices.'
+ print(result_str)
+ fmt = '%s -> %.2f'
+ for filtered_value in simplex_tree.get_filtration():
+ print(fmt % tuple(filtered_value))
+
+the program output is:
+
+.. testoutput::
+
+ Rips complex is of dimension 1 - 18 simplices - 7 vertices.
+ [0] -> 0.00
+ [1] -> 0.00
+ [2] -> 0.00
+ [3] -> 0.00
+ [4] -> 0.00
+ [5] -> 0.00
+ [6] -> 0.00
+ [2, 3] -> 5.00
+ [4, 5] -> 5.39
+ [0, 2] -> 5.83
+ [0, 1] -> 6.08
+ [1, 3] -> 6.32
+ [1, 2] -> 6.71
+ [5, 6] -> 7.28
+ [2, 4] -> 8.94
+ [0, 3] -> 9.43
+ [4, 6] -> 9.49
+ [3, 6] -> 11.00
+
+Correlation matrix
+------------------
+
+Example from a correlation matrix
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Analogously to the case of distance matrix, Rips complexes can be also constructed based on correlation matrix.
+Given a correlation matrix M, comportment-wise 1-M is a distance matrix.
+This example builds the one skeleton graph from the given corelation matrix and threshold value.
+Then it creates a :doc:`Simplex_tree <simplex_tree_ref>` with it.
+
+Finally, it is asked to display information about the simplicial complex.
+
+.. testcode::
+
+ import gudhi
+ import numpy as np
+
+ # User defined correlation matrix is:
+ # |1 0.06 0.23 0.01 0.89|
+ # |0.06 1 0.74 0.01 0.61|
+ # |0.23 0.74 1 0.72 0.03|
+ # |0.01 0.01 0.72 1 0.7 |
+ # |0.89 0.61 0.03 0.7 1 |
+ correlation_matrix=np.array([[1., 0.06, 0.23, 0.01, 0.89],
+ [0.06, 1., 0.74, 0.01, 0.61],
+ [0.23, 0.74, 1., 0.72, 0.03],
+ [0.01, 0.01, 0.72, 1., 0.7],
+ [0.89, 0.61, 0.03, 0.7, 1.]], float)
+
+ distance_matrix = np.ones((correlation_matrix.shape),float) - correlation_matrix
+ rips_complex = gudhi.RipsComplex(distance_matrix=distance_matrix, max_edge_length=1.0)
+
+ simplex_tree = rips_complex.create_simplex_tree(max_dimension=1)
+ result_str = 'Rips complex is of dimension ' + repr(simplex_tree.dimension()) + ' - ' + \
+ repr(simplex_tree.num_simplices()) + ' simplices - ' + \
+ repr(simplex_tree.num_vertices()) + ' vertices.'
+ print(result_str)
+ fmt = '%s -> %.2f'
+ for filtered_value in simplex_tree.get_filtration():
+ print(fmt % tuple(filtered_value))
+
+When launching (Rips maximal distance between 2 points is 12.0, is expanded
+until dimension 1 - one skeleton graph in other words), the output is:
+
+.. testoutput::
+
+ Rips complex is of dimension 1 - 15 simplices - 5 vertices.
+ [0] -> 0.00
+ [1] -> 0.00
+ [2] -> 0.00
+ [3] -> 0.00
+ [4] -> 0.00
+ [0, 4] -> 0.11
+ [1, 2] -> 0.26
+ [2, 3] -> 0.28
+ [3, 4] -> 0.30
+ [1, 4] -> 0.39
+ [0, 2] -> 0.77
+ [0, 1] -> 0.94
+ [2, 4] -> 0.97
+ [0, 3] -> 0.99
+ [1, 3] -> 0.99
+
+.. note::
+ As persistence diagrams points will be under the diagonal,
+ bottleneck distance and persistence graphical tool will not work properly,
+ this is a known issue.
diff --git a/src/python/doc/simplex_tree_ref.rst b/src/python/doc/simplex_tree_ref.rst
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+:orphan:
+
+.. To get rid of WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
+
+=============================
+Simplex tree reference manual
+=============================
+
+.. autoclass:: gudhi.SimplexTree
+ :members:
+ :undoc-members:
+ :show-inheritance:
+
+ .. automethod:: gudhi.SimplexTree.__init__
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+.. table::
+ :widths: 30 50 20
+
+ +----------------------------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------+
+ | .. figure:: | The simplex tree is an efficient and flexible data structure for | :Author: Clément Maria |
+ | ../../doc/Simplex_tree/Simplex_tree_representation.png | representing general (filtered) simplicial complexes. | |
+ | :alt: Simplex tree representation | | :Introduced in: GUDHI 2.0.0 |
+ | :figclass: align-center | The data structure is described in | |
+ | | :cite:`boissonnatmariasimplextreealgorithmica` | :Copyright: MIT |
+ | | | |
+ +----------------------------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------+
+ | * :doc:`simplex_tree_user` | * :doc:`simplex_tree_ref` |
+ +----------------------------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
diff --git a/src/python/doc/simplex_tree_user.rst b/src/python/doc/simplex_tree_user.rst
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+:orphan:
+
+.. To get rid of WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
+
+Simplex tree user manual
+========================
+Definition
+----------
+
+.. include:: simplex_tree_sum.inc
+
+A simplicial complex :math:`\mathbf{K}` on a set of vertices :math:`V = \{1, \cdots ,|V|\}` is a collection of
+simplices :math:`\{\sigma\}`, :math:`\sigma \subseteq V` such that
+:math:`\tau \subseteq \sigma \in \mathbf{K} \rightarrow \tau \in \mathbf{K}`. The dimension :math:`n=|\sigma|-1` of
+:math:`\sigma` is its number of elements minus `1`.
+
+A filtration of a simplicial complex is a function :math:`f:\mathbf{K} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}` satisfying
+:math:`f(\tau)\leq f(\sigma)` whenever :math:`\tau \subseteq \sigma`. Ordering the simplices by increasing filtration
+values (breaking ties so as a simplex appears after its subsimplices of same filtration value) provides an indexing
+scheme.
+
+
+Implementation
+--------------
+
+There are two implementation of complexes. The first on is the Simplex_tree data structure.
+The simplex tree is an efficient and flexible data structure for representing general (filtered) simplicial complexes.
+The data structure is described in :cite`boissonnatmariasimplextreealgorithmica`.
+
+The second one is the Hasse_complex. The Hasse complex is a data structure representing explicitly all co-dimension 1
+incidence relations in a complex. It is consequently faster when accessing the boundary of a simplex, but is less
+compact and harder to construct from scratch.
+
+Example
+-------
+
+.. testcode::
+
+ import gudhi
+ st = gudhi.SimplexTree()
+ if st.insert([0, 1]):
+ print("[0, 1] inserted")
+ if st.insert([0, 1, 2], filtration=4.0):
+ print("[0, 1, 2] inserted")
+ if st.find([0, 1]):
+ print("[0, 1] found")
+ result_str = 'num_vertices=' + repr(st.num_vertices())
+ print(result_str)
+ result_str = 'num_simplices=' + repr(st.num_simplices())
+ print(result_str)
+ print("skeleton(2) =")
+ for sk_value in st.get_skeleton(2):
+ print(sk_value)
+
+
+The output is:
+
+.. testoutput::
+
+ [0, 1] inserted
+ [0, 1, 2] inserted
+ [0, 1] found
+ num_vertices=3
+ num_simplices=7
+ skeleton(2) =
+ ([0, 1, 2], 4.0)
+ ([0, 1], 0.0)
+ ([0, 2], 4.0)
+ ([0], 0.0)
+ ([1, 2], 4.0)
+ ([1], 0.0)
+ ([2], 4.0)
diff --git a/src/python/doc/strong_witness_complex_ref.rst b/src/python/doc/strong_witness_complex_ref.rst
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+
+.. To get rid of WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
+
+=======================================
+Strong witness complex reference manual
+=======================================
+
+.. autoclass:: gudhi.StrongWitnessComplex
+ :members:
+ :undoc-members:
+ :show-inheritance:
+
+ .. automethod:: gudhi.StrongWitnessComplex.__init__
diff --git a/src/python/doc/tangential_complex_ref.rst b/src/python/doc/tangential_complex_ref.rst
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+
+.. To get rid of WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
+
+===================================
+Tangential complex reference manual
+===================================
+
+.. autoclass:: gudhi.TangentialComplex
+ :members:
+ :undoc-members:
+ :show-inheritance:
+
+ .. automethod:: gudhi.TangentialComplex.__init__
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+.. table::
+ :widths: 30 50 20
+
+ +----------------------------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+ | .. figure:: | A Tangential Delaunay complex is a simplicial complex designed to | :Author: Clément Jamin |
+ | ../../doc/Tangential_complex/tc_examples.png | reconstruct a :math:`k`-dimensional manifold embedded in :math:`d`- | |
+ | :figclass: align-center | dimensional Euclidean space. The input is a point sample coming from | :Introduced in: GUDHI 2.0.0 |
+ | | an unknown manifold. The running time depends only linearly on the | |
+ | | extrinsic dimension :math:`d` and exponentially on the intrinsic | :Copyright: MIT (`GPL v3 </licensing/>`_) |
+ | | dimension :math:`k`. | |
+ | | | :Requires: `Eigen <installation.html#eigen>`__ :math:`\geq` 3.1.0 and `CGAL <installation.html#cgal>`__ :math:`\geq` 4.11.0 |
+ +----------------------------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+ | * :doc:`tangential_complex_user` | * :doc:`tangential_complex_ref` |
+ +----------------------------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
diff --git a/src/python/doc/tangential_complex_user.rst b/src/python/doc/tangential_complex_user.rst
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+:orphan:
+
+.. To get rid of WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
+
+Tangential complex user manual
+==============================
+.. include:: tangential_complex_sum.inc
+
+Definition
+----------
+
+A Tangential Delaunay complex is a simplicial complex designed to reconstruct a
+:math:`k`-dimensional smooth manifold embedded in :math:`d`-dimensional
+Euclidean space. The input is a point sample coming from an unknown manifold,
+which means that the points lie close to a structure of "small" intrinsic
+dimension. The running time depends only linearly on the extrinsic dimension
+:math:`d` and exponentially on the intrinsic dimension :math:`k`.
+
+An extensive description of the Tangential complex can be found in
+:cite:`tangentialcomplex2014`.
+
+What is a Tangential Complex?
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Let us start with the description of the Tangential complex of a simple
+example, with :math:`k = 1` and :math:`d = 2`. The point set
+:math:`\mathscr P` is located on a closed curve embedded in 2D.
+Only 4 points will be displayed (more are required for PCA) to simplify the
+figures.
+
+.. figure:: ../../doc/Tangential_complex/tc_example_01.png
+ :alt: The input
+ :figclass: align-center
+
+ The input
+
+For each point :math:`P`, estimate its tangent subspace :math:`T_P` using PCA.
+
+.. figure:: ../../doc/Tangential_complex/tc_example_02.png
+ :alt: The estimated normals
+ :figclass: align-center
+
+ The estimated normals
+
+
+Let us add the Voronoi diagram of the points in orange. For each point
+:math:`P`, construct its star in the Delaunay triangulation of
+:math:`\mathscr P` restricted to :math:`T_P`.
+
+.. figure:: ../../doc/Tangential_complex/tc_example_03.png
+ :alt: The Voronoi diagram
+ :figclass: align-center
+
+ The Voronoi diagram
+
+The Tangential Delaunay complex is the union of those stars.
+
+In practice, neither the ambient Voronoi diagram nor the ambient Delaunay
+triangulation is computed. Instead, local :math:`k`-dimensional regular
+triangulations are computed with a limited number of points as we only need the
+star of each point. More details can be found in :cite:`tangentialcomplex2014`.
+
+Inconsistencies
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+Inconsistencies between the stars can occur. An inconsistency occurs when a
+simplex is not in the star of all its vertices.
+
+Let us take the same example.
+
+.. figure:: ../../doc/Tangential_complex/tc_example_07_before.png
+ :alt: Before
+ :figclass: align-center
+
+ Before
+
+Let us slightly move the tangent subspace :math:`T_Q`
+
+.. figure:: ../../doc/Tangential_complex/tc_example_07_after.png
+ :alt: After
+ :figclass: align-center
+
+ After
+
+Now, the star of :math:`Q` contains :math:`QP`, but the star of :math:`P` does
+not contain :math:`QP`. We have an inconsistency.
+
+.. figure:: ../../doc/Tangential_complex/tc_example_08.png
+ :alt: After
+ :figclass: align-center
+
+ After
+
+One way to solve inconsistencies is to randomly perturb the positions of the
+points involved in an inconsistency. In the current implementation, this
+perturbation is done in the tangent subspace of each point. The maximum
+perturbation radius is given as a parameter to the constructor.
+
+In most cases, we recommend to provide a point set where the minimum distance
+between any two points is not too small. This can be achieved using the
+functions provided by the Subsampling module. Then, a good value to start with
+for the maximum perturbation radius would be around half the minimum distance
+between any two points. The Example with perturbation below shows an example of
+such a process.
+
+In most cases, this process is able to dramatically reduce the number of
+inconsistencies, but is not guaranteed to succeed.
+
+Output
+^^^^^^
+The result of the computation is exported as a Simplex_tree. It is the union of
+the stars of all the input points. A vertex in the Simplex Tree is the index of
+the point in the range provided by the user. The point corresponding to a
+vertex can also be obtained through the Tangential_complex::get_point function.
+Note that even if the positions of the points are perturbed, their original
+positions are kept (e.g. Tangential_complex::get_point returns the original
+position of the point).
+
+The result can be obtained after the computation of the Tangential complex
+itself and/or after the perturbation process.
+
+
+Simple example
+--------------
+
+This example builds the Tangential complex of point set read in an OFF file.
+
+.. testcode::
+
+ import gudhi
+ tc = gudhi.TangentialComplex(intrisic_dim = 1,
+ off_file=gudhi.__root_source_dir__ + '/data/points/alphacomplexdoc.off')
+ tc.compute_tangential_complex()
+ result_str = 'Tangential contains ' + repr(tc.num_simplices()) + \
+ ' simplices - ' + repr(tc.num_vertices()) + ' vertices.'
+ print(result_str)
+
+ st = tc.create_simplex_tree()
+ result_str = 'Simplex tree is of dimension ' + repr(st.dimension()) + \
+ ' - ' + repr(st.num_simplices()) + ' simplices - ' + \
+ repr(st.num_vertices()) + ' vertices.'
+ print(result_str)
+ for filtered_value in st.get_filtration():
+ print(filtered_value[0])
+
+The output is:
+
+.. testoutput::
+
+ Tangential contains 12 simplices - 7 vertices.
+ Simplex tree is of dimension 1 - 15 simplices - 7 vertices.
+ [0]
+ [1]
+ [0, 1]
+ [2]
+ [0, 2]
+ [1, 2]
+ [3]
+ [1, 3]
+ [4]
+ [2, 4]
+ [5]
+ [4, 5]
+ [6]
+ [3, 6]
+ [5, 6]
+
+
+Example with perturbation
+-------------------------
+
+This example builds the Tangential complex of a point set, then tries to solve
+inconsistencies by perturbing the positions of points involved in inconsistent
+simplices.
+
+.. testcode::
+
+ import gudhi
+ tc = gudhi.TangentialComplex(intrisic_dim = 1,
+ points=[[0.0, 0.0], [1.0, 0.0], [0.0, 1.0], [1.0, 1.0]])
+ tc.compute_tangential_complex()
+ result_str = 'Tangential contains ' + repr(tc.num_vertices()) + ' vertices.'
+ print(result_str)
+
+ if tc.num_inconsistent_simplices() > 0:
+ print('Tangential contains inconsistencies.')
+
+ tc.fix_inconsistencies_using_perturbation(10, 60)
+ if tc.num_inconsistent_simplices() == 0:
+ print('Inconsistencies has been fixed.')
+
+The output is:
+
+.. testoutput::
+
+ Tangential contains 4 vertices.
+ Inconsistencies has been fixed.
+
+
+Bibliography
+============
+
+.. bibliography:: ../../biblio/bibliography.bib
+ :filter: docnames
+ :style: unsrt
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+
+==========
+To be done
+==========
+
+.. todolist::
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+================================
+Witness complex reference manual
+================================
+
+.. autoclass:: gudhi.WitnessComplex
+ :members:
+ :undoc-members:
+ :show-inheritance:
+
+ .. automethod:: gudhi.WitnessComplex.__init__
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+.. table::
+ :widths: 30 50 20
+
+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+ | .. figure:: | Witness complex :math:`Wit(W,L)` is a simplicial complex defined on | :Author: Siargey Kachanovich |
+ | ../../doc/Witness_complex/Witness_complex_representation.png | two sets of points in :math:`\mathbb{R}^D`. | |
+ | :alt: Witness complex representation | | :Introduced in: GUDHI 2.0.0 |
+ | :figclass: align-center | The data structure is described in | |
+ | | :cite:`boissonnatmariasimplextreealgorithmica`. | :Copyright: MIT (`GPL v3 </licensing/>`_ for Euclidean versions only) |
+ | | | |
+ | | | :Requires: `Eigen <installation.html#eigen>`__ :math:`\geq` 3.1.0 and `CGAL <installation.html#cgal>`__ :math:`\geq` 4.11.0 for Euclidean versions only |
+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+ | * :doc:`witness_complex_user` | * :doc:`witness_complex_ref` |
+ | | * :doc:`strong_witness_complex_ref` |
+ | | * :doc:`euclidean_witness_complex_ref` |
+ | | * :doc:`euclidean_strong_witness_complex_ref` |
+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+
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+Witness complex user manual
+===========================
+
+.. include:: witness_complex_sum.inc
+
+Definitions
+-----------
+
+Witness complex is a simplicial complex defined on two sets of points in :math:`\mathbb{R}^D`:
+
+- :math:`W` set of **witnesses** and
+- :math:`L` set of **landmarks**.
+
+Even though often the set of landmarks :math:`L` is a subset of the set of witnesses :math:`W`, it is not a requirement
+for the current implementation.
+
+Landmarks are the vertices of the simplicial complex and witnesses help to decide on which simplices are inserted via a
+predicate "is witnessed".
+
+De Silva and Carlsson in their paper :cite:`de2004topological` differentiate **weak witnessing** and
+**strong witnessing**:
+
+- *weak*: :math:`\sigma \subset L` is witnessed by :math:`w \in W` if :math:`\forall l \in \sigma,\ \forall l' \in \mathbf{L \setminus \sigma},\ d(w,l) \leq d(w,l')`
+- *strong*: :math:`\sigma \subset L` is witnessed by :math:`w \in W` if :math:`\forall l \in \sigma,\ \forall l' \in \mathbf{L},\ d(w,l) \leq d(w,l')`
+
+where :math:`d(.,.)` is a distance function.
+
+Both definitions can be relaxed by a real value :math:`\alpha`:
+
+- *weak*: :math:`\sigma \subset L` is :math:`\alpha`-witnessed by :math:`w \in W` if :math:`\forall l \in \sigma,\ \forall l' \in \mathbf{L \setminus \sigma},\ d(w,l)^2 \leq d(w,l')^2 + \alpha^2`
+- *strong*: :math:`\sigma \subset L` is :math:`\alpha`-witnessed by :math:`w \in W` if :math:`\forall l \in \sigma,\ \forall l' \in \mathbf{L},\ d(w,l)^2 \leq d(w,l')^2 + \alpha^2`
+
+which leads to definitions of **weak relaxed witness complex** (or just relaxed witness complex for short) and
+**strong relaxed witness complex** respectively.
+
+.. figure:: ../../doc/Witness_complex/swit.svg
+ :alt: Strongly witnessed simplex
+ :figclass: align-center
+
+ Strongly witnessed simplex
+
+
+In particular case of 0-relaxation, weak complex corresponds to **witness complex** introduced in
+:cite:`de2004topological`, whereas 0-relaxed strong witness complex consists of just vertices and is not very
+interesting. Hence for small relaxation weak version is preferable.
+However, to capture the homotopy type (for example using Gudhi::persistent_cohomology::Persistent_cohomology) it is
+often necessary to work with higher filtration values. In this case strong relaxed witness complex is faster to compute
+and offers similar results.
+
+Implementation
+--------------
+
+The two complexes described above are implemented in the corresponding classes
+
+- :doc:`witness_complex_ref`
+- :doc:`strong_witness_complex_ref`
+- :doc:`euclidean_witness_complex_ref`
+- :doc:`euclidean_strong_witness_complex_ref`
+
+The construction of the Euclidean versions of complexes follow the same scheme:
+
+1. Construct a search tree on landmarks.
+2. Construct lists of nearest landmarks for each witness.
+3. Construct the witness complex for nearest landmark lists.
+
+In the non-Euclidean classes, the lists of nearest landmarks are supposed to be given as input.
+
+The constructors take on the steps 1 and 2, while the function 'create_complex' executes the step 3.
+
+Constructing weak relaxed witness complex from an off file
+----------------------------------------------------------
+
+Let's start with a simple example, which reads an off point file and computes a weak witness complex.
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+ import gudhi
+ import argparse
+
+ parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='EuclideanWitnessComplex creation from '
+ 'points read in a OFF file.',
+ epilog='Example: '
+ 'example/witness_complex_diagram_persistence_from_off_file_example.py '
+ '-f ../data/points/tore3D_300.off -a 1.0 -n 20 -d 2'
+ '- Constructs a alpha complex with the '
+ 'points from the given OFF file.')
+ parser.add_argument("-f", "--file", type=str, required=True)
+ parser.add_argument("-a", "--max_alpha_square", type=float, required=True)
+ parser.add_argument("-n", "--number_of_landmarks", type=int, required=True)
+ parser.add_argument("-d", "--limit_dimension", type=int, required=True)
+
+ args = parser.parse_args()
+
+ with open(args.file, 'r') as f:
+ first_line = f.readline()
+ if (first_line == 'OFF\n') or (first_line == 'nOFF\n'):
+ print("#####################################################################")
+ print("EuclideanWitnessComplex creation from points read in a OFF file")
+
+ witnesses = gudhi.read_off(off_file=args.file)
+ landmarks = gudhi.pick_n_random_points(points=witnesses, nb_points=args.number_of_landmarks)
+
+ message = "EuclideanWitnessComplex with max_edge_length=" + repr(args.max_alpha_square) + \
+ " - Number of landmarks=" + repr(args.number_of_landmarks)
+ print(message)
+
+ witness_complex = gudhi.EuclideanWitnessComplex(witnesses=witnesses, landmarks=landmarks)
+ simplex_tree = witness_complex.create_simplex_tree(max_alpha_square=args.max_alpha_square,
+ limit_dimension=args.limit_dimension)
+
+ message = "Number of simplices=" + repr(simplex_tree.num_simplices())
+ print(message)
+ else:
+ print(args.file, "is not a valid OFF file")
+
+ f.close()
+
+
+Example2: Computing persistence using strong relaxed witness complex
+--------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Here is an example of constructing a strong witness complex filtration and computing persistence on it:
+
+* :download:`euclidean_strong_witness_complex_diagram_persistence_from_off_file_example.py <../example/euclidean_strong_witness_complex_diagram_persistence_from_off_file_example.py>`
+
+Bibliography
+============
+
+.. bibliography:: ../../biblio/bibliography.bib
+ :filter: docnames
+ :style: unsrt