# Volume of the union of a list of overlapping spheres?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/volume-of-the-union-of-a-list-of-overlapping-spheres/5685>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question, package\
**Created:** [September 2, 2017, 10:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/volume-of-the-union-of-a-list-of-overlapping-spheres/5685 "2017-09-02T22:09:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![e3c6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e79b87/32.png) [@e3c6](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/e3c6)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2017, 10:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/volume-of-the-union-of-a-list-of-overlapping-spheres/5685/1 "2017-09-02T22:09:47Z")

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Is there a package in Julia (or Python, that I can call from Julia) to compute the volume of the union of a list of overlapping spheres (I specify their position and radius)?

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**Author:** ![e3c6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e79b87/32.png) [@e3c6](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/e3c6)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 12:06am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/volume-of-the-union-of-a-list-of-overlapping-spheres/5685/2 "2017-09-03T00:06:27Z")

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An algorithm is described here: [https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2049665](https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2049665). They provide a source code, but I cannot find it.