Region Connection Calculus 8

Description

Region Connection Calculus (RCC) [1] [2] is intended to serve for qualitative spatial representation and reasoning. RCC abstractly describes regions (in Euclidean space, or in a topological space) by their possible relations to each other.

RCC8 consists of 8 basic relations that are possible between two regions.

Relations

All the possible RCC8 relations between a blue object X and a red object Y are:

Relation Illustration Interpretation
X dc Y ../../../_images/rcc8_dc.png X is disconnected from Y.
X ec Y ../../../_images/rcc8_ec.png X is externally connected to Y.
X po Y ../../../_images/rcc8_po.png X is partially overlapping Y.
X tpp Y ../../../_images/rcc8_tpp.png X is a tangential proper part of Y.
X ntpp Y ../../../_images/rcc8_ntpp.png X is a non-tangential proper part of Y.
X eq Y ../../../_images/rcc8_eq.png X is equal to Y.
X tppi Y ../../../_images/rcc8_tppi.png X is a tangential proper part inverse of Y.
X ntppi Y ../../../_images/rcc8_ntppi.png X is a non-tangential proper part inverse of Y.

API

The API can be found here.

References

[1]Randell, D. A., Cui, Z. and Cohn, A. G.: A spatial logic based on regions and connection, Proc. 3rd Int. Conf. on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, pp. 165–176, 1992. (link)
[2]Anthony G. Cohn, Brandon Bennett, John Gooday, Micholas Mark Gotts: Qualitative Spatial Representation and Reasoning with the Region Connection Calculus. GeoInformatica, 1, 275–316, 1997.