Polyhedral complexes in polymake [polymake wiki]

This tutorial is probably also available as a Jupyter notebook in the demo folder in the polymake source and on github.

Different versions of this tutorial: latest release, release 4.13, release 4.12, release 4.11, release 4.10, release 4.9, release 4.8, release 4.7, release 4.6, release 4.5, release 4.4, release 4.3, release 4.2, release 4.1, release 4.0, release 3.6, nightly master

Polyhedral complexes are contained in the application fan, so you hanve to switch application to access the full functionality.

> application "fan";

To define polyhedral complexes in polymake, you need to provide an array of input points and a list of polytopes represented as an array of arrays of point indices.

> $pc1 = new PolyhedralComplex(POINTS=>[[1,0,0],[1,0,1],[1,1,0],[1,1,1]],INPUT_POLYTOPES=>[[0,1,2],[2,3],[1]]);

Since some of the input polytopes may be redundant, you should ask for the MAXIMAL_POLYTOPES.

> print $pc1->MAXIMAL_POLYTOPES;
{0 1 2}
{2 3}
> $pc1->VISUAL;

pcom:pc1

Explode

Automatic explosion

Exploding speed

Transparency

depthWrite

Rotation

x-axis

y-axis

z-axis

Rotation speed

Display

Objects

Camera

SVG

Triangulations

Triangulations of polytopes form an important special class of polytopal complexes. In polymake they are objects of type SimplicialComplex (and thus belong to the application topaz). However, it is easy to convert them as follows:

> $c=cube(3);
> $triangulation=new PolyhedralComplex(VERTICES=>$c->VERTICES,MAXIMAL_POLYTOPES=>$c->TRIANGULATION->FACETS);

Voronoi Diagrams and regular subdivisions

There are separate tutorials for Voronoi diagrams and regluar subdivisions of point sets.