Suppose that we have several squares of the same size. We want to draw n rectangles (red and yellow rectangles here) to contain these squares.
The goal is to have the least wasted space possible.
In the example below, n = 2 and the solution on the right is preferred because it results in only one wasted space.
Are there any known algorithms already in place to solve these kind of problems?
UPDATE:
The arrangement of the squares is arbitrary and they are always above the X axis!
UPDATE2:
To make the question easier, let's assume that the so called container rectangles are on top of each other! (Red and yellow rectangles here)
A little more complicated case:
let's assume two rectangles are used for this one too. As it can be seen, the 3rd solution results in the least wasted space.
This question is almost identical to a hiring puzzle that ITA Software posed, called "Strawberry Fields" (scroll down for Strawberry Fields; change the greenhouse cost from 10 to 0). I can confirm that integer programming, specifically branch and price where the high-level decisions are whether to put two squares in the same rectangle, works very, very well for this problem. Here's my custom solver, written in C. You'll need to change the greenhouse cost in strawberry_fields.h from 10 to 0.
This type of rectangle cover is hard (NP-hard actually, you can use it to solve the Rectangle Cover Problem), but you can solve this with integer linear programming, as follows:
minimize sum[i] take[i] * area[i]
st
sum[i] take[i] == n
for every filled cell x,y:
sum[rectangle i covers x,y] take[i] == 1
take[i] in { 0, 1 }
Where the lists of rectangles contains only "reasonable" rectangles that you might need. ie only rectangles that cannot be made smaller without uncovering some filled cell, and you can skip certain "interior rectangles" that you can tell can never be part of a solution because they would leave a shape that's harder to cover. Generating those rectangles is a fun exercise in its own right, but generating too many isn't a big problem, just slower. In the solution, any take[i] that is 1 corresponds to a rectangle that you take.
You can throw this into any available solver, such as GLPK (free) or Gurobi (commercial and academic licenses available).
This should generally be faster than brute force, because the linear relaxation (same model as above, but the last constraint converted to 0 <= take[i] <= 1) can be used to guide the search, and various plane cutting tricks can be applied.
More advanced tricks can be found in this paper, such as tricks that use the fractional solution from the linear relaxation.
Related
My problem is explained in the following image
http://i.stack.imgur.com/n6mZt.png
I have a finite (but rather large) amount of such pieces that need to be stacked in a way so that the REMAINING area is the smallest possible. The pieces are locked in the horizontal axis (time) and have fixed height. They can only be stacked.
The remaining area is defined by the maximum point of the stack that depends on which pieces have been selected. The best combination in the example image would be the [1 1 0]. (The trivial [0 0 0] case will not be allowed by other constraints)
My only variables are binaries (Yes or No) for each piece. The objective is a little more complicated than what I am describing, but my greatest problem right now is how to formulate the expression
Max{Stacked_Pieces} - Stacked_Pieces_Profile
in the objective function. The result of this expression is a vector of course (timeseries) but it will be further reduced to a number through other manipulations.
Essentially my problem is how to write
Max{A} - A, where A = 1xN vector
In a way compatible with a linear (or even quadratic) objective. Or am I dealing with a non-linear problem?
EDIT: The problem is like a Knapsack problem the main difference being that there is no knapsack to fill up. i.e. the size of the knapsack varies according to the selected pieces and is always equal to the top of the stacked profile
Thanks everybody!
From what I understand you can basically try to solve it as a normal knapsack problem in multiple iterations, finding the minimal.
Now, finding the height of the knapsack is a problem, which means you need multiple iterations. Because you need to solve the knapsack problem to see if a certain height will work, you need multiple iterations.
Note that you do know an upper and a lower bound for the height. I'm not sure if rotation is applicable, but you can fill in the gaps here:
Min = max(max height of smallest piece, total size / width)
Max = sum(height of all pieces).
Basically solving it means finding the smallest height [Min <= x <= Max] that fits all pieces. The easiest way to do that is by using a 'for' loop, but you can do it better:
Try min, max, half
if half fits -> max = half; iterate (goto 1)
if half doesn't fit -> min = half; iterate (goto 1)
As for solving the knapsack problem, for each iteration, I'd check if all pieces can still be fitted. Use bit-masks and AND/OR/XOR operations if you can to speed things up.
Basically you can do it like this:
Grab bit 'x'. Fill with next block
Check if this leads to a possible solution
Find next bit that can be filled
Note that you might want to use intrinsics in C++ to speed this up. Modern CPU's are quite good with this.
As for code: I've made some code that solves the bedlam cube in the past; I'm pretty sure that if you google for that, you'll find some fast solvers.
Good luck!
I need to find a combination of rectangles that will maximize the use of the area of a circle. The difference between my situation and the classic problems is I have a set of rectangles I CAN use, and a subset of those rectangles I MUST use.
By way of an analogy: Think of an end of a log and list of board sizes. I can cut 2x4s, 2x6s and 2x8s and 2x10 from a log but I must cut at least two 2x4s and one 2x8.
As I understand it, my particular variation is mildly different than other packing optimizations. Thanks in advance for any insight on how I might adapt existing algorithms to solve this problem.
NCDiesel
This is actually a pretty hard problem, even with squares instead of rectangles.
Here's an idea. Approach it as an knapsack-Integer-Program, which can give you some insights into the solution. (By definition it won't give you the optimal solution.)
IP Formulation Heuristic
Say you have a total of n rectangles, r1, r2, r3, ..., rn
Let the area of each rectangle be a1, a2, a3, ..., an
Let the area of the large circle you are given be *A*
Decision Variable
Xi = 1 if rectangle i is selected. 0 otherwise.
Objective
Minimize [A - Sum_over_i (ai * Xi)]
Subject to:
Sum_over_i (ai x Xi) <= A # Area_limit constraint
Xk = 1 for each rectangle k that has to be selected
You can solve this using any solver.
Now, the reason this is a heuristic is that this solution totally ignores the arrangement of the rectangles inside the circle. It also ends up "cutting" rectangles into smaller pieces to fit inside the circle. (That is why the Area_limit constraint is a weak bound.)
Relevant Reference
This Math SE question addresses the "classic" version of it.
And you can look at the link provided as comments in there, for several clever solutions involving squares of the same size packed inside a circle.
I have a large set of overlapping circles each at a random location with a specific radius.
type Circle =
struct
val x: float
val y: float
val radius: float
end
Given a new point with type
type Point =
struct
val x: float
val y: float
end
I would like to know which circles in my set enclose the new point. A linear search is trivial. I'm looking for a structure that can hold the circles and return the enclosing circles with better than O(N) for the presented point.
Ideally the structure should be fast for insertion of new circles and removal of circles as well.
I would like to implement this in F# but ideas in any language are fine.
For your information I'm looking to implement
http://takisword.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/bowyerwatson-algorithm/
but it would be an O(N^2) if I use the naive approach of scanning all circles for every new point.
If we assume that circles are distributed over some rectangle with area 1 and the average area of a circle is a then a quadtree with m levels will leave you with an area with size 1/2^m. This leaves
O(Na/2^m)
as the expected number of circles left in the remaining area.
However, we have done O(log(m)) comparisons to get to this point. This leaves the total number of comparisons as
O(log(m)) + O(N/2^m)
The second term will be constant if log(m) is proportional to N.
This suggests that a quadtree can cut things down to O(log n)
Quadtree is a structure for efficient plane search. You can use it to hold subdivision of the plane.
For example you can create quad tree with such properties:
1. Every cell of quadtree contains indices of circles, overlapping it.
2. Every cell does contain not more than K circles (for example 10) // may be broken
3. Height of tree is bounded by M (usually O(log n))
You can construct quadtree, by iterating overlapped cells, and if number of circles inside cell exceedes K, then subdivide that cell into four (if not exceeding max height). Also something should be considered in case of cell inside circles, because its subdivision is pointless.
When finding circles you should localise quadtree, then iterate through overlapping circles and find, those which contains point.
In case of sparse circle distribution search will be very efficient.
I have a bachelor thesis, where I adapted quadtree, for closest segment location, with expected time O(log n), I think similar approach could be used here
Actually you search for triangles whose circumcircles include the new point p. Thus your Delaunay triangulation is already the data structure you need: First search for the triangle t which includes p (google for 'delaunay walk'). The circumcircle of t certainly includes p. Then start from t and grow the (connected) area of triangles whose circumcircles include p.
Implementing it in a fast an reliable way is a lot of work. Unless you want to create a new library you may want to use an existing one. My approach for C++ is Fade2D [1] but there are also many others, it depends on your specific needs.
[1] http://www.geom.at/fade2d/html/
I've got a GPS track produced by gpxlogger(1) (supplied as a client for gpsd). GPS receiver updates its coordinates every 1 second, gpxlogger's logic is very simple, it writes down location (lat, lon, ele) and a timestamp (time) received from GPS every n seconds (n = 3 in my case).
After writing down a several hours worth of track, gpxlogger saves several megabyte long GPX file that includes several thousands of points. Afterwards, I try to plot this track on a map and use it with OpenLayers. It works, but several thousands of points make using the map a sloppy and slow experience.
I understand that having several thousands of points of suboptimal. There are myriads of points that can be deleted without losing almost anything: when there are several points making up roughly the straight line and we're moving with the same constant speed between them, we can just leave the first and the last point and throw away anything else.
I thought of using gpsbabel for such track simplification / optimization job, but, alas, it's simplification filter works only with routes, i.e. analyzing only geometrical shape of path, without timestamps (i.e. not checking that the speed was roughly constant).
Is there some ready-made utility / library / algorithm available to optimize tracks? Or may be I'm missing some clever option with gpsbabel?
Yes, as mentioned before, the Douglas-Peucker algorithm is a straightforward way to simplify 2D connected paths. But as you have pointed out, you will need to extend it to the 3D case to properly simplify a GPS track with an inherent time dimension associated with every point. I have done so for a web application of my own using a PHP implementation of Douglas-Peucker.
It's easy to extend the algorithm to the 3D case with a little understanding of how the algorithm works. Say you have input path consisting of 26 points labeled A to Z. The simplest version of this path has two points, A and Z, so we start there. Imagine a line segment between A and Z. Now scan through all remaining points B through Y to find the point furthest away from the line segment AZ. Say that point furthest away is J. Then, you scan the points between B and I to find the furthest point from line segment AJ and scan points K through Y to find the point furthest from segment JZ, and so on, until the remaining points all lie within some desired distance threshold.
This will require some simple vector operations. Logically, it's the same process in 3D as in 2D. If you find a Douglas-Peucker algorithm implemented in your language, it might have some 2D vector math implemented, and you'll need to extend those to use 3 dimensions.
You can find a 3D C++ implementation here: 3D Douglas-Peucker in C++
Your x and y coordinates will probably be in degrees of latitude/longitude, and the z (time) coordinate might be in seconds since the unix epoch. You can resolve this discrepancy by deciding on an appropriate spatial-temporal relationship; let's say you want to view one day of activity over a map area of 1 square mile. Imagining this relationship as a cube of 1 mile by 1 mile by 1 day, you must prescale the time variable. Conversion from degrees to surface distance is non-trivial, but for this case we simplify and say one degree is 60 miles; then one mile is .0167 degrees. One day is 86400 seconds; then to make the units equivalent, our prescale factor for your timestamp is .0167/86400, or about 1/5,000,000.
If, say, you want to view the GPS activity within the same 1 square mile map area over 2 days instead, time resolution becomes half as important, so scale it down twice further, to 1/10,000,000. Have fun.
Have a look at Ramer-Douglas-Peucker algorithm for smoothening complex polygons, also Douglas-Peucker line simplification algorithm can help you reduce your points.
OpenSource GeoKarambola java library (no Android dependencies but can be used in Android) that includes a GpxPathManipulator class that does both route & track simplification/reduction (3D/elevation aware).
If the points have timestamp information that will not be discarded.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/geokarambola/
This is the algorith in action, interactively
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-hvHFyZfcY58/Vsye7nVrmiI/AAAAAAAAHdg/2-NFVfofbd4ShZcvtyCDpi2vXoYkZVFlQ/w360-h640-no/movie360x640_05_82_05.gif
This algorithm is based on reducing the number of points by eliminating those that have the greatest XTD (cross track distance) error until a tolerated error is satisfied or the maximum number of points is reached (both parameters of the function), wichever comes first.
An alternative algorithm, for on-the-run stream like track simplification (I call it "streamplification") is:
you keep a small buffer of the points the GPS sensor gives you, each time a GPS point is added to the buffer (elevation included) you calculate the max XTD (cross track distance) of all the points in the buffer to the line segment that unites the first point with the (newly added) last point of the buffer. If the point with the greatest XTD violates your max tolerated XTD error (25m has given me great results) then you cut the buffer at that point, register it as a selected point to be appended to the streamplified track, trim the trailing part of the buffer up to that cut point, and keep going. At the end of the track the last point of the buffer is also added/flushed to the solution.
This algorithm is lightweight enough that it runs on an AndroidWear smartwatch and gives optimal output regardless of if you move slow or fast, or stand idle at the same place for a long time. The ONLY thing that maters is the SHAPE of your track. You can go for many minutes/kilometers and, as long as you are moving in a straight line (a corridor within +/- tolerated XTD error deviations) the streamplify algorithm will only output 2 points: those of the exit form last curve and entry on next curve.
I ran in to a similar issue. The rate at which the gps unit takes points is much larger that needed. Many of the points are not geographically far away from each other. The approach that I took is to calculate the distance between the points using the haversine formula. If the distance was not larger than my threshold (0.1 miles in my case) I threw away the point. This quickly gets the number of points down to a manageable size.
I don't know what language you are looking for. Here is a C# project that I was working on. At the bottom you will find the haversine code.
http://blog.bobcravens.com/2010/09/gps-using-the-netduino/
Hope this gets you going.
Bob
This is probably NP-hard. Suppose you have points A, B, C, D, E.
Let's try a simple deterministic algorithm. Suppose you calculate the distance from point B to line A-C and it's smaller than your threshold (1 meter). So you delete B. Then you try the same for C to line A-D, but it's bigger and D for C-E, which is also bigger.
But it turns out that the optimal solution is A, B, E, because point C and D are close to the line B-E, yet on opposite sides.
If you delete 1 point, you cannot be sure that it should be a point that you should keep, unless you try every single possible solution (which can be n^n in size, so on n=80 that's more than the minimum number of atoms in the known universe).
Next step: try a brute force or branch and bound algorithm. Doesn't scale, doesn't work for real-world size. You can safely skip this step :)
Next step: First do a determinstic algorithm and improve upon that with a metaheuristic algorithm (tabu search, simulated annealing, genetic algorithms). In java there are a couple of open source implementations, such as Drools Planner.
All in all, you 'll probably have a workable solution (although not optimal) with the first simple deterministic algorithm, because you only have 1 constraint.
A far cousin of this problem is probably the Traveling Salesman Problem variant in which the salesman cannot visit all cities but has to select a few.
You want to throw away uninteresting points. So you need a function that computes how interesting a point is, then you can compute how interesting all the points are and throw away the N least interesting points, where you choose N to slim the data set sufficiently. It sounds like your definition of interesting corresponds to high acceleration (deviation from straight-line motion), which is easy to compute.
Try this, it's free and opensource online Service:
https://opengeo.tech/maps/gpx-simplify-optimizer/
I guess you need to keep points where you change direction. If you split your track into the set of intervals of constant direction, you can leave only boundary points of these intervals.
And, as Raedwald pointed out, you'll want to leave points where your acceleration is not zero.
Not sure how well this will work, but how about taking your list of points, working out the distance between them and therefore the total distance of the route and then deciding on a resolution distance and then just linear interpolating the position based on each step of x meters. ie for each fix you have a "distance from start" measure and you just interpolate where n*x is for your entire route. (you could decide how many points you want and divide the total distance by this to get your resolution distance). On top of this you could add a windowing function taking maybe the current point +/- z points and applying a weighting like exp(-k* dist^2/accuracy^2) to get the weighted average of a set of points where dist is the distance from the raw interpolated point and accuracy is the supposed accuracy of the gps position.
One really simple method is to repeatedly remove the point that creates the largest angle (in the range of 0° to 180° where 180° means it's on a straight line between its neighbors) between its neighbors until you have few enough points. That will start off removing all points that are perfectly in line with their neighbors and will go from there.
You can do that in Ο(n log(n)) by making a list of each index and its angle, sorting that list in descending order of angle, keeping how many you need from the front of the list, sorting that shorter list in descending order of index, and removing the indexes from the list of points.
def simplify_points(points, how_many_points_to_remove)
angle_map = Array.new
(2..points.length - 1).each { |next_index|
removal_list.add([next_index - 1, angle_between(points[next_index - 2], points[next_index - 1], points[next_index])])
}
removal_list = removal_list.sort_by { |index, angle| angle }.reverse
removal_list = removal_list.first(how_many_points_to_remove)
removal_list = removal_list.sort_by { |index, angle| index }.reverse
removal_list.each { |index| points.delete_at(index) }
return points
end
My question is fairly simple. I have two tetrahedra, each with a current position, a linear speed in space, an angular velocity and a center of mass (center of rotation, actually).
Having this data, I am trying to find a (fast) algorithm which would precisely determine (1) whether they would collide at some point in time, and if it is the case, (2) after how much time they collided and (3) the point of collision.
Most people would solve this by doing triangle-triangle collision detection, but this would waste a few CPU cycles on redundant operations such as checking the same edge of one tetrahedron against the same edge of the other tetrahedron upon checking up different triangles. This only means I'll optimize things a bit. Nothing to worry about.
The problem is that I am not aware of any public CCD (continuous collision detection) triangle-triangle algorithm which takes self-rotation in account.
Therefore, I need an algorithm which would be inputted the following data:
vertex data for three triangles
position and center of rotation/mass
linear velocity and angular velocity
And would output the following:
Whether there is a collision
After how much time the collision occurred
In which point in space the collision occurred
Thanks in advance for your help.
The commonly used discrete collision detection would check the triangles of each shape for collision, over successive discrete points in time. While straightforward to compute, it could miss a fast moving object hitting another one, due to the collision happening between discrete points in time tested.
Continuous collision detection would first compute the volumes traced by each triangle over an infinity of time. For a triangle moving at constant speed and without rotation, this volume could look like a triangular prism. CCD would then check for collision between the volumes, and finally trace back if and at what time the triangles actually shared the same space.
When angular velocity is introduced, the volume traced by each triangle no longer looks like a prism. It might look more like the shape of a screw, like a strand of DNA, or some other non-trivial shapes you might get by rotating a triangle around some arbitrary axis while dragging it linearly. Computing the shape of such volume is no easy feat.
One approach might first compute the sphere that contains an entire tetrahedron when it is rotating at the given angular velocity vector, if it was not moving linearly. You can compute a rotation circle for each vertex, and derive the sphere from that. Given a sphere, we can now approximate the extruded CCD volume as a cylinder with the radius of the sphere and progressing along the linear velocity vector. Finding collisions of such cylinders gets us a first approximation for an area to search for collisions in.
A second, complementary approach might attempt to approximate the actual volume traced by each triangle by breaking it down into small, almost-prismatic sub-volumes. It would take the triangle positions at two increments of time, and add surfaces generated by tracing the triangle vertices at those moments. It's an approximation because it connects a straight line rather than an actual curve. For the approximation to avoid gross errors, the duration between each successive moments needs to be short enough such that the triangle only completes a small fraction of a rotation. The duration can be derived from the angular velocity.
The second approach creates many more polygons! You can use the first approach to limit the search volume, and then use the second to get higher precision.
If you're solving this for a game engine, you might find the precision of above sufficient (I would still shudder at the computational cost). If, rather, you're writing a CAD program or working on your thesis, you might find it less than satisfying. In the latter case, you might want to refine the second approach, perhaps by a better geometric description of the volume occupied by a turning, moving triangle -- when limited to a small turn angle.
I have spent quite a lot of time wondering about geometry problems like this one, and it seems like accurate solutions, despite their simple statements, are way too complicated to be practical, even for analogous 2D cases.
But intuitively I see that such solutions do exist when you consider linear translation velocities and linear angular velocities. Don't think you'll find the answer on the web or in any book because what we're talking about here are special, yet complex, cases. An iterative solution is probably what you want anyway -- the rest of the world is satisfied with those, so why shouldn't you be?
If you were trying to collide non-rotating tetrahedra, I'd suggest a taking the Minkowski sum and performing a ray check, but that won't work with rotation.
The best I can come up with is to perform swept-sphere collision using their bounding spheres to give you a range of times to check using bisection or what-have-you.
Here's an outline of a closed-form mathematical approach. Each element of this will be easy to express individually, and the final combination of these would be a closed form expression if one could ever write it out:
1) The equation of motion for each point of the tetrahedra is fairly simple in it's own coordinate system. The motion of the center of mass (CM) will just move smoothly along a straight line and the corner points will rotate around an axis through the CM, assumed to be the z-axis here, so the equation for each corner point (parameterized by time, t) is p = vt + x + r(sin(wt+s)i + cos(wt + s)j ), where v is the vector velocity of the center of mass; r is the radius of the projection onto the x-y plane; i, j, and k are the x, y and z unit vectors; and x and s account for the starting position and phase of rotation at t=0.
2) Note that each object has it's own coordinate system to easily represent the motion, but to compare them you'll need to rotate each into a common coordinate system, which may as well be the coordinate system of the screen. (Note though that the different coordinate systems are fixed in space and not traveling with the tetrahedra.) So determine the rotation matrices and apply them to each trajectory (i.e. the points and CM of each of the tetrahedra).
3) Now you have an equation for each trajectory all within the same coordinate system and you need to find the times of the intersections. This can be found by testing whether any of the line segments from the points to the CM of a tetrahedron intersects the any of the triangles of another. This also has a closed-form expression, as can be found here.
Layering these steps will make for terribly ugly equations, but it wouldn't be hard to solve them computationally (although with the rotation of the tetrahedra you need to be sure not to get stuck in a local minimum). Another option might be to plug it into something like Mathematica to do the cranking for you. (Not all problems have easy answers.)
Sorry I'm not a math boff and have no idea what the correct terminology is. Hope my poor terms don't hide my meaning too much.
Pick some arbitrary timestep.
Compute the bounds of each shape in two dimensions perpendicular to the axis it is moving on for the timestep.
For a timestep:
If the shaft of those bounds for any two objects intersect, half timestep and start recurse in.
A kind of binary search of increasingly fine precision to discover the point at which a finite intersection occurs.
Your problem can be cast into a linear programming problem and solved exactly.
First, suppose (p0,p1,p2,p3) are the vertexes at time t0, and (q0,q1,q2,q3) are the vertexes at time t1 for the first tetrahedron, then in 4d space-time, they fill the following 4d closed volume
V = { (r,t) | (r,t) = a0 (p0,t0) + … + a3 (p3,t0) + b0 (q0,t1) + … + b3 (q3,t1) }
Here the a0...a3 and b0…b3 parameters are in the interval [0,1] and sum to 1:
a0+a1+a2+a3+b0+b1+b2+b3=1
The second tetrahedron is similarly a convex polygon (add a ‘ to everything above to define V’ the 4d volume for that moving tetrahedron.
Now the intersection of two convex polygon is a convex polygon. The first time this happens would satisfy the following linear programming problem:
If (p0,p1,p2,p3) moves to (q0,q1,q2,q3)
and (p0’,p1’,p2’,p3’) moves to (q0’,q1’,q2’,q3’)
then the first time of intersection happens at points/times (r,t):
Minimize t0*(a0+a1+a2+a3)+t1*(b0+b1+b2+b3) subject to
0 <= ak <=1, 0<=bk <=1, 0 <= ak’ <=1, 0<=bk’ <=1, k=0..4
a0*(p0,t0) + … + a3*(p3,t0) + b0*(q0,t1) + … + b3*(q3,t1)
= a0’*(p0’,t0) + … + a3’*(p3’,t0) + b0’*(q0’,t1) + … + b3’*(q3’,t1)
The last is actually 4 equations, one for each dimension of (r,t).
This is a total of 20 linear constraints of the 16 values ak,bk,ak', and bk'.
If there is a solution, then
(r,t)= a0*(p0,t0) + … + a3*(p3,t0) + b0*(q0,t1) + … + b3*(q3,t1)
Is a point of first intersection. Otherwise they do not intersect.
Thought about this in the past but lost interest... The best way to go about solving it would be to abstract out one object.
Make a coordinate system where the first tetrahedron is the center (barycentric coords or a skewed system with one point as the origin) and abstract out the rotation by making the other tetrahedron rotate around the center. This should give you parametric equations if you make the rotation times time.
Add the movement of the center of mass towards the first and its spin and you have a set of equations for movement relative to the first (distance).
Solve for t where the distance equals zero.
Obviously with this method the more effects you add (like wind resistance) the messier the equations get buts its still probably the simplest (almost every other collision technique uses this method of abstraction). The biggest problem is if you add any effects that have feedback with no analytical solution the whole equation becomes unsolvable.
Note: If you go the route of of a skewed system watch out for pitfalls with distance. You must be in the right octant! This method favors vectors and quaternions though, while the barycentric coords favors matrices. So pick whichever your system uses most effectively.