from collections import namedtuple Circle = namedtuple("Circle", "x y r") circles = [ Circle( 1.6417233788, 1.6121789534, 0.0848270516), Circle(-1.4944608174, 1.2077959613, 1.1039549836), Circle( 0.6110294452, -0.6907087527, 0.9089162485), Circle( 0.3844862411, 0.2923344616, 0.2375743054), Circle(-0.2495892950, -0.3832854473, 1.0845181219), Circle( 1.7813504266, 1.6178237031, 0.8162655711), Circle(-0.1985249206, -0.8343333301, 0.0538864941), Circle(-1.7011985145, -0.1263820964, 0.4776976918), Circle(-0.4319462812, 1.4104420482, 0.7886291537), Circle( 0.2178372997, -0.9499557344, 0.0357871187), Circle(-0.6294854565, -1.3078893852, 0.7653357688), Circle( 1.7952608455, 0.6281269104, 0.2727652452), Circle( 1.4168575317, 1.0683357171, 1.1016025378), Circle( 1.4637371396, 0.9463877418, 1.1846214562), Circle(-0.5263668798, 1.7315156631, 1.4428514068), Circle(-1.2197352481, 0.9144146579, 1.0727263474), Circle(-0.1389358881, 0.1092805780, 0.7350208828), Circle( 1.5293954595, 0.0030278255, 1.2472867347), Circle(-0.5258728625, 1.3782633069, 1.3495508831), Circle(-0.1403562064, 0.2437382535, 1.3804956588), Circle( 0.8055826339, -0.0482092025, 0.3327165165), Circle(-0.6311979224, 0.7184578971, 0.2491045282), Circle( 1.4685857879, -0.8347049536, 1.3670667538), Circle(-0.6855727502, 1.6465021616, 1.0593087096), Circle( 0.0152957411, 0.0638919221, 0.9771215985)] def main(): # compute the bounding box of the circles x_min = min(c.x - c.r for c in circles) x_max = max(c.x + c.r for c in circles) y_min = min(c.y - c.r for c in circles) y_max = max(c.y + c.r for c in circles) box_side = 500 dx = (x_max - x_min) / box_side dy = (y_max - y_min) / box_side count = 0 for r in xrange(box_side): y = y_min + r * dy for c in xrange(box_side): x = x_min + c * dx if any((x-circle.x)**2 + (y-circle.y)**2 <= (circle.r ** 2) for circle in circles): count += 1 print "Approximated area:", count * dx * dy main()