lang-simplification-algorithm
A simple implementation of the Lang simplification algorithm.
Overview
The Lang algorithm belongs to the family of the line simplification algorithms. More info about it can be found e.g. here.
The code included in this repository presents a simple implementation of this idea that (hopefully) should work properly
for two-dimensional problems but probably does not handle tricky corner cases, nor is superbly optimised. However, it
does contain a test script (to be run with pytest), examples of use (the images - together with a script to generate
them - are included in the examples
folder), and a facility to run the program easily via the command line - either directly or with Docker.
How to use
directly
Pull the repository, set up the virtual environment (requirements.txt is provided) and run python main.py. As
the displayed help message should inform, the program needs a set of parameters to work, here is the exemplary command:
python main.py -p 3 5 -p 5 8 -p 10 10 -p 16 9 -p 19 3 -p 26 4 -p 31 7 -p 32 11 -t 5 -l 4
with Docker
Pull the repository and run
docker image build --tag lang .
docker container run -it --rm lang
As the displayed help message should inform, the program needs a set of parameters to work, here is the exemplary command:
docker container run -it --rm lang -p 3 5 -p 5 8 -p 10 10 -p 16 9 -p 19 3 -p 26 4 -p 31 7 -p 32 11 -t 5 -l 4