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list manipulation - Quickly selecting for points in a set that are within a critical distance of points in another set


Imagine two lists of two-dimensional coordinates:


listA = RandomReal[{0,100},{202,2}];
listB = RandomReal[{0,100},{97,2}];


I'm attempting to quickly generate a new series of lists, outputListA and outputListB consisting of the indices for the set of points in listA and listB, respectively, that are within some Euclidean distance $D$ of a point in a list for which they are not a member (i.e. points in listA that are at most a distance distCut from at least one point in listB and vice versa).


This isn't the right way to do things (it takes $\approx 88$ milliseconds for sizes of listA and listB shown), but it hopefully illustrates what I'm trying to do:


listA = RandomReal[{0, 100}, {202, 2}];
listB = RandomReal[{0, 100}, {97, 2}];

outputList = {};
distCut = 1;

For[x = 1, x <= Length[listA], x++,
For[y = 1, y <= Length[listB], y++,

If[EuclideanDistance[listA[[x]], listB[[y]]] <= distCut,
outputList = Append[outputList, {x, y}];
];
];
];

outputListA = Intersection[outputList[[All, 1]], outputList[[All, 1]]];
outputListB = Intersection[outputList[[All, 2]], outputList[[All, 2]]];

Length[outputListA]

Length[outputListB]

A smarter way to proceed might be to round values in listA and listB to a multiple of distCut, and then check for values in the rounded lists that are equal. However, I can't think of a good way to do this that avoids unnecessary attrition / misses points.


A thought - Can we repeatedly apply Nearest for each point $p_i$ in listA until we find a point that is more than a distance distCut from $p_i$? Is Nearest doing anything more sophisticated than sequentially scanning through all of the points in a comparison list and checking Euclidean distances?


Update - I've specified now that outputListA and outputListB should consist of the indices of the points in listA and listB satisfying the distance cutoff criterion.



Answer



Nearest[]supports the following syntax:



Nearest[data,x,{n,r}] give up to the n nearest elements to x within a radius r




So:


listA = RandomReal[{0, 100}, {202, 2}];
listB = RandomReal[{0, 100}, {97, 2}];
distCut = 1;
f = Nearest[listB];
Timing[s = Union[f[#, {Infinity, distCut}] & /@ listA]]


{0., {{}, {{1.80442, 77.5901}}, {{5.51155, 53.6578}}, {{9.51508, 16.3514}}, {{31.804, 24.5855}}, {{35.4298, 36.839}}, {{65.3657, 85.783}}, {{76.6778, 92.0471}}, {{84.3255, 77.5874}}}}




Manipulate[
(s = Flatten[Union[f[#, {Infinity, distCut}] & /@ listA], 1];
Show[ListPlot[{listA, listB}, PlotStyle -> {Red, Blue}],
ListPlot[s, PlotStyle -> {PointSize[Medium], RGBColor[0, distCut/10, 0]}]]),
{distCut, 1, 10}]

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