from enthought.mayavi import mlab
import numpy as np

def compute_delaunay_edges(x, y, z, visualize=False):
    """ Given 3-D points, returns the edges of their 
        Delaunay triangulation.

        Parameters
        -----------
        x: ndarray
            x coordinates of the points
        y: ndarray
            y coordinates of the points
        z: ndarray        
            z coordinates of the points

        Returns
        ---------  
        edges: 2D ndarray. 
            The indices of the edges of the Delaunay triangulation as a 
            (2, N) array [[pair1_index1, pair2_index1, ...],
            [pair1_index2, pair2_index2, .. ]]
    """
    if visualize:
        vtk_source =  mlab.points3d(x, y, z)
    else:
        vtk_source =  mlab.points3d(x, y, z, figure=False)
    delaunay =  mlab.pipeline.delaunay3d(vtk_source)
    edges = mlab.pipeline.extract_edges(delaunay)
    if visualize:
        mlab.pipeline.surface(edges)
    lines = edges.outputs[0].lines.to_array()
    return np.array([lines[1::3], lines[2::3]])


if __name__ == '__main__':
    N = 200
    x, y, z = np.random.random((3, N))
    edges = compute_delaunay_edges(x, y, z, visualize=True)
    mlab.show()