Re: [sympy] Difficulty computing the surface area of a quartic triangle Bezier patch.

2016-04-29 Thread Aaron Meurer
There seem to be some serious performance issues in the polys here. I was unable to even compute the degree of the polynomial under the square root. Do you know if this integral has a closed form? If so, my only suggestion would be to try some change of variable to make it easier to compute. Aaro

[sympy] Difficulty computing the surface area of a quartic triangle Bezier patch.

2016-04-29 Thread Davis Vigneault
All-- I'm a new user of sympy, and have been really impressed by how easy it is to get started. :-) However, I recently came across a problem that's been causing sympy to hang, and am not sure whether (a) it is an intractable problem that sympy simply can't solve, (b) there is some hint I cou