Is it possible to calculate the area of the overlap of two curves?
I found two answers here but they are written in R which I am not familiar with. Or struggling to convert them to python.
Area between the two curves and Find area of overlap between two curves
For example, for a given dataset with defined x, y points. (x1,y1,x2,y2)
I am able to get the area of each curve using :
np.trapz
However, to get the overlap only is challenging and I haven't found a solution to show. Any guidance or maths formulas will be appreciated.
So this can be done using the shapely module within Python.
Firstly, Join the two curves together to create one self-intersecting polygon (shown in code below).
Then using the unary_union() function from shapely, you will:
Split the complex polygon into seperate simple polygons.
Find the area of each simple polygon.
Sum it to find the overall area of the two curves.
Full code shown below:
import numpy as np
from shapely.geometry import LineString
from shapely.ops import unary_union, polygonize
avg_coords = [(0.0, 0.0), (4.872117, 2.29658), (5.268545, 2.4639225), (5.664686, 2.6485724), (6.059776, 2.8966842), (6.695151, 3.0986626), (7.728006, 3.4045217), (8.522297, 3.652668), (9.157002, 3.895031), (10.191483, 4.1028132), (10.827622, 4.258638), (11.38593, 4.2933016), (11.86478, 4.3048816), (12.344586, 4.258769), (12.984073, 4.2126703), (13.942729, 4.1781383), (14.58212, 4.137809), (15.542498, 3.99943), (16.502588, 3.878359), (17.182951, 3.7745714), (18.262657, 3.6621647), (19.102558, 3.567045), (20.061789, 3.497897), (21.139917, 3.4806826), (22.097425, 3.5153809), (23.65388, 3.5414772), (24.851482, 3.541581), (26.04966, 3.507069), (27.72702, 3.463945), (28.925198, 3.429433), (29.883854, 3.3949006), (31.08246, 3.3344274), (31.92107, 3.317192), (33.716183, 3.3952322), (35.63192, 3.4213595), (37.427895, 3.4474766), (39.343628, 3.473604), (41.49874, 3.508406), (43.773468, 3.5518723), (46.287716, 3.595359), (49.28115, 3.6302335), (52.633293, 3.6997545), (54.30922, 3.7431688), (55.8651, 3.8038807), (58.738773, 3.8387446), (60.893887, 3.8735466), (63.647655, 3.9170544), (66.760704, 3.960593), (68.79663, 3.9607692), (70.23332, 3.986855), (72.867905, 3.995737), (75.38245, 4.0219164), (77.778656, 3.9615464), (79.337975, 3.8145657), (80.41826, 3.6675436), (80.899734, 3.5204697), (81.62059, 3.38207), (82.34045, 3.3042476), (83.30039, 3.1918304), (84.38039, 3.062116), (84.50359, 2.854434), (83.906364, 2.7591898), (83.669716, 2.586092), (83.43435, 2.3351095), (83.19727, 2.1879735), (82.84229, 1.9283267), (82.48516, 1.7984879), (81.65014, 1.5993768), (80.454544, 1.4781193), (79.13962, 1.3308897), (77.944595, 1.1750168), (76.39001, 1.0364205), (74.59633, 0.87184185), (71.60447, 0.741775), (70.04903, 0.6551017), (58.3, 0.0)]
model_coords = [(0.0, 0.0), (0.6699889, 0.18807), (1.339894, 0.37499), (2.009583, 0.55966), (2.67915, 0.74106), (3.348189, 0.91826), (4.016881, 1.0904), (4.685107, 1.2567), (5.359344, 1.418), (6.026172, 1.5706), (6.685472, 1.714), (7.350604, 1.8508), (8.021434, 1.9803), (8.684451, 2.0996), (9.346408, 2.2099), (10.0066, 2.311), (10.66665, 2.4028), (11.32436, 2.4853), (11.98068, 2.5585), (12.6356, 2.6225), (13.29005, 2.6775), (13.93507, 2.7232), (14.58554, 2.7609), (15.23346, 2.7903), (15.87982, 2.8116), (16.52556, 2.8254), (17.16867, 2.832), (17.80914, 2.8317), (18.44891, 2.825), (19.08598, 2.8124), (19.72132, 2.7944), (20.35491, 2.7713), (20.98673, 2.7438), (21.61675, 2.7121), (22.24398, 2.677), (22.86939, 2.6387), (23.49297, 2.5978), (24.1147, 2.5548), (24.73458, 2.51), (25.3526, 2.464), (25.96874, 2.4171), (26.58301, 2.3697), (27.1954, 2.3223), (27.80491, 2.2751), (28.41354, 2.2285), (29.02028, 2.1829), (29.62512, 2.1384), (30.22809, 2.0954), (30.82917, 2.0541), (31.42837, 2.0147), 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polygon_points = [] #creates a empty list where we will append the points to create the polygon
for xyvalue in avg_coords:
polygon_points.append([xyvalue[0],xyvalue[1]]) #append all xy points for curve 1
for xyvalue in model_coords[::-1]:
polygon_points.append([xyvalue[0],xyvalue[1]]) #append all xy points for curve 2 in the reverse order (from last point to first point)
for xyvalue in avg_coords[0:1]:
polygon_points.append([xyvalue[0],xyvalue[1]]) #append the first point in curve 1 again, to it "closes" the polygon
avg_poly = []
model_poly = []
for xyvalue in avg_coords:
avg_poly.append([xyvalue[0],xyvalue[1]])
for xyvalue in model_coords:
model_poly.append([xyvalue[0],xyvalue[1]])
line_non_simple = LineString(polygon_points)
mls = unary_union(line_non_simple)
Area_cal =[]
for polygon in polygonize(mls):
Area_cal.append(polygon.area)
print(polygon.area)# print area of each section
Area_poly = (np.asarray(Area_cal).sum())
print(Area_poly)#print combined area
If possible, represent your overlap regions as polygons. From there the polygon area is computable by a remarkably concise formula as explained on Paul Bourke's site.
Suppose (x[i], y[i]), i = 0, ..., N, are the polygon vertices, with (x[0], y[0]) = (x[N], y[N]) so that the polygon is closed, and consistently all in clockwise order or all in counter-clockwise order. Then the area is
area = |0.5 * sum_i (x[i] * y[i+1] - x[i+1] * y[i])|
where the sum goes over i = 0, ..., N-1. This is valid even for nonconvex polygons. This formula is essentially the same principle behind how a planimeter works to measure area of an arbitrary two-dimensional shape, a special case of Green's theorem.
If your functions are actually "function" meaning that no vertical lines intersect the functions more than once, then finding the overlaps is the matter of finding zeros.
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
dx = 0.01
x = np.arange(-2, 2, dx)
f1 = np.sin(4*x)
f2 = np.cos(4*x)
plt.plot(x, f1)
plt.plot(x, f2)
eps = 1e-1; # threshold of intersection points.
df = f1 - f2
idx_zeros = np.where(abs(df) <= eps)[0]
area = 0
for i in range(len(idx_zeros) - 1):
idx_left = idx_zeros[i]
idx_rite = idx_zeros[i+1]
area += abs(np.trapz(df[idx_left:idx_rite])) * dx
I have assumed areas to be considered positive.
The analytical value for the example I used is
sufficiently close to the computed value (area=2.819). Of course, you can improve this if your grids are finer, and threshold eps smaller.