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neighbour_index_gaps — MATH construct op

使い方

How far apart in index are a point’s nearest neighbours — parastichy as a number.

In a phyllotactic pattern the visible spirals (parastichies) are not drawn by anything; they are an illusion of which florets happen to sit next to each other. This op replaces the illusion with a count: for every point, take its k nearest neighbours in space and record the difference of their ordering indices. The histogram of those differences is returned, index g holding how many neighbour pairs were g apart.

★Why this earns its place: with the golden angle the peaks land on Fibonacci numbers (8, 13, 21, 34, 55 …), and with any other angle they do not. That is a statement about the arrangement which can be checked without looking at the picture — which is the whole point, because the spirals look convincing at every angle.

Parameters

points : (N, 2) array Ordered points — the order is the data here, not a convenience. k : int >= 1 Neighbours per point (6 is the natural choice: a well-packed planar arrangement is locally hexagonal).

Returns a signal: counts[g] = number of neighbour pairs whose index difference is g (counts[0] is always 0 — a point is not its own neighbour).

Raises ValueError: not an (N, 2) array; fewer than k + 1 points; k below 1; non-finite coordinates.

Limits: the first points of a spiral sit near the centre where the packing is degenerate, so the histogram has a low-index tail that carries no parastichy information. Compare peaks, not the raw tail.

Equal-distance neighbours retain the spatial tree query’s native index order; chunking does not sort or otherwise change that tie rule.

HALCON: no operator.

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参考(サンプルデータ・文献)

実行できる例(この op を実際に呼ぶ検証済みサンプル)

型が繋がる次の op(signal を入力に取れる)

mat_solve · mat_lstsq · stat_describe · stat_histogram · stat_zscore · interp_linear · interp_cubic · interp_scattered

同カテゴリ(construct)

circle_packing_apollonian · ford_circles · phyllotaxis_pattern · ifs_fractal · ifs_similarity_dimension · space_filling_curve · curve_locality


Provenance: mathops.py — MATH operator registry. この per-op ノートは tools/opdocs.py md が自動生成(手編集しない)。

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