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simplifying expressions - Simplify 2D polyhedral Regions like Interval


I don't think there's a built in "RegionSimplify" for polyhedral Regions and derived akin to how Interval automatically simplifies its argument expression:


Interval[{0, 1}, {1, 2}]

and


Interval[{0, 1}]~IntervalUnion~Interval[{1, 2}]

yield


Interval[{0, 2}]


In contrast, RegionUnion remains unevaluated, even in 2D:


Line[{{0, 0}, {1, 0}}]~ RegionUnion ~ Line[{{1, 0}, {2, 0}}]

(* RegionUnion[Line[{{0, 0}, {1, 0}}], Line[{{1, 0}, {2, 0}}]] *)

From


Rectangle[{0, 0}, {1, 1}] ~ RegionUnion ~ 
  Rectangle[{1, 0}, {2, 1}] // RegionBoundary // DiscretizeRegion


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As expected, the Rectangles' common segment is not part of the output.


How to expose or compute the ideal normal form for 2D (at least) polyhedral Regions like these basic examples:


Overlapping lines:


Line[{{0, 0}, {2, 0}}]~ RegionUnion ~ Line[{{1, 0}, {3, 0}}] (* // RegionSimplify *)

(*  Line[{{0,0},{3,0}}] *)

Union of rectangles:


 Rectangle[{0, 0}, {1, 1}] ~ RegionUnion ~ 

      Rectangle[{1, 0}, {2, 1}] (* // RegionSimplify *)

(* Rectangle[{0, 0}, {2, 1}] *)

Boundary:


 Rectangle[{0, 0}, {1, 1}] ~ RegionUnion ~ 
      Rectangle[{1, 0}, {2, 1}] // RegionBoundary  (* // RegionSimplify *)

(* Line[{{0,0},{2,0},{2,1},{0,1},{0,0}}]  *)


The simplification should work for all 2D polyhedral regions including cones (which btw the current language does not support correctly):


ConicHullRegion[{{0, 0}}, {{1, 0}, {1, 1}}] ~RegionUnion ~ 
 ConicHullRegion[{{0, 0}}, {{0, 1}, {1, 1}}] (* // RegionSimplify *)

(* ConicHullRegion[{{0, 0}}, {{1, 0}, {0, 1}}] *)

For convex regions and convex-preserving operations (eg intersection) should suffice to consider the extreme set (vertices and rays), but in general regions aren't convex (and union doens't preserve it).


(Note: RegionIntersection of the same Rectangles hangs the kernel w/ msg: Last::nolast: "{} has a length of zero and no last element")




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