Surface-to-surface Alignment

lerandc / construction_zone

Modules for generating nanoscale+ atomic scenes, primarily using pymatgen as generators with S/TEM image simulation in mind

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Surface-to-surface Alignment #1

Open lerandc opened 3 years ago

lerandc commented 3 years ago

Utility for aligning Volumes to eachother

Scope:

Plane to plane
Simplex to simplex
Plane to simplex and vice versa

General Description: given a target plane or simplex A in a stationary volume, and moving plane or simplex B in a different, moving volume, align A and B such that 1) plane normals are antiparallel 2) surfaces touch and 3) some minimal translation requirement is met

[ ] Rotation of plane normals
[ ] Translation minimization

lerandc commented 3 years ago

translation minimziation should be accomplished by projecting target points onto aligned plane and solving for transverse vector between them