spoon_bowl_volume — DRIVE scoop op

• Data kinds: scalar × scalar → table

• Call: import fullseye as fs; fs.ledger.spoon_bowl_volume(a: 'float', h: 'float', *, fill_depth: 'float | None' = None, phi_deg: 'float | None' = None) -> 'dict' (to call the implementation directly, import scoop; scoop.spoon_bowl_volume(a: 'float', h: 'float', *, fill_depth: 'float | None' = None, phi_deg: 'float | None' = None) -> 'dict'; from the registry, opsdrive.get("spoon_bowl_volume"))

Usage

Closed form for a spherical-cap bowl (rim radius a, depth h) — level, partially filled and heaped.

Sphere radius R = (a² + h²) / (2h), levelled (struck) volume V_struck = π h (3a² + h²) / 6. Given fill_depth = y, the volume filled flat from the bottom up to y is V_fill = π y² (3R − y) / 3 (an identity that matches y = h at V_struck). Given phi_deg, a cone with angle of repose φ on the rim as base (upper bound of a heaped scoop) V_heap = (π/3) a³ tan φ, height a tan φ, V_heaped = V_struck + V_heap, and the heaped / struck ratio.

Returns: R, V_struck, V_fill (when given), V_heap / H_heap / V_heaped / heaped_ratio (when φ is given). Raises ValueError: a or h ≤ 0, h > a (a bowl deeper than a hemisphere is not widest at the rim, which breaks the premise of scoop_volume_read, which only looks from the side upward), fill_depth outside (0, h], φ outside (0, 90).

References (sample data, literature)

• Sample-data catalog (download URLs / licences) — 2-D uses skimage.data (BSD/public domain) plus synthetic images; 3-D lists download URLs for real data sources (Stanford, PDS, …).

• Operator provenance and references — the sources of the research/methods this op family came from.

• The canonical algorithm (author, year) and its uses are named in the family usage guide above.

Runnable examples (verified samples that actually call this op)

• poc_powder_scoop_pour — py -3.11 examples/poc_powder_scoop_pour.py

Ops the type connects to (they accept table as input)

course_layout · course_occupancy · course_contains · world_build · world_camera · world_move · lidar_scan · rss_longitudinal_same

Same category (scoop)

scoop_synth_side · revolution_volume_side · two_view_volume · scoop_volume_read · scoop_count · scoop_image_limit · tilt_wedge_retained · tilt_pour_rate


*Provenance: scoop.py — DRIVE operator registry. This per-op note is generated by tools/opdocs.py md (do not hand-edit).*

© 2026 Kazufumi Furuse — Fullseye operator documentation. Licensed under Apache-2.0.