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python : intersection geometrical objects in 3D space

Definition of the problem
I am trying to calculate the points of intersection of geometrical objects, such as two planes and a sphere, in python.
Let's consider for example these three objects:
This system gives two solutions:
I would like to know if there is a python library that can help develop a solver to calculate these intersections. I am looking for something working as Wolfram alpha, where we can input three equations and it returns all the possible solutions when there's finite number of solutions for simplicity.
What I tried
I tried with SymPy, but it returns []:
from sympy.solvers import solve
from sympy import Symbol
x = Symbol('x')
y = Symbol('y')
z = Symbol('z')
solve(z, x, x**2 + y**2 + z**2 -1)
I then tried with scipy:
from scipy.optimize import fsolve
def f(x):
y = np.zeros(3)
y[2] = x[2]
y[0] = x[0]
y[1] = x[0] ** 2 + x[1] ** 2+ x[2] ** 2 - 1
return y
x0 = np.array([10, 10, 10])
solution = fsolve(f, x0)
print(solution[0],solution[1],solution[2])
but it only returns one of the two solutions:
6.79746218330325e-28 1.0000000000000002 -2.3528179942097343e-35
I also tried with gekko, and stil it only returns one possible solution (which depends on the initial guess):
from gekko import GEKKO
m = GEKKO()
x = m.Var(value = 1)
y = m.Var(value = 1)
z = m.Var(value = 1)
m.Equation(x == 0)
m.Equation(z == 0)
m.Equation(x**2 + y**2+z**2 ==1)
m.solve()

fsolve from scipy, and all other functions that I personally know of that will accept any form of input function, will return one value.
One workaround if you have an idea where the other solution is would be to give an x0 value that is closer to the second solution with a second call to fsolve (see https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.optimize.fsolve.html).
If you alternatively know what range you want to try and find solutions in, the easiest way is to make an array that you then check to see where the value changes sign (this would be doing it from scratch)

I found the solution with sympy. Apparently it's one of the only (if not only) libraries that allow finding analytical solutions, and returns more than just one solution. Also, we don't need to pass guesses as initial variables. In my question, there was an error in the example I posted with sympy. This is how I solved the system:
from sympy.solvers import solve
import sympy as sp
x = Symbol('x')
y = Symbol('y')
z = Symbol('z')
sp.solve([z , x, (x**2 + y**2 + z**2) - 1], x,y,z)
Result: [0,-1,0], [0,1,0]

Is there a way to easily integrate a set of differential equations over a full grid of points?

The problem is that I would like to be able to integrate the differential equations starting for each point of the grid at once instead of having to loop over the scipy integrator for each coordinate. (I'm sure there's an easy way)
As background for the code I'm trying to solve the trajectories of a Couette flux alternating the direction of the velocity each certain period, that is a well known dynamical system that produces chaos. I don't think the rest of the code really matters as the part of the integration with scipy and my usage of the meshgrid function of numpy.
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.animation import FuncAnimation, writers
from scipy.integrate import solve_ivp
start_T = 100
L = 1
V = 1
total_run_time = 10*3
grid_points = 10
T_list = np.arange(start_T, 1, -1)
x = np.linspace(0, L, grid_points)
y = np.linspace(0, L, grid_points)
X, Y = np.meshgrid(x, y)
condition = True
totals = np.zeros((start_T, total_run_time, 2))
alphas = np.zeros(start_T)
i = 0
for T in T_list:
alphas[i] = L / (V * T)
solution = np.array([X, Y])
for steps in range(int(total_run_time/T)):
t = steps*T
if condition:
def eq(t, x):
return V * np.sin(2 * np.pi * x[1] / L), 0.0
condition = False
else:
def eq(t, x):
return 0.0, V * np.sin(2 * np.pi * x[1] / L)
condition = True
time_steps = np.arange(t, t + T)
xt = solve_ivp(eq, time_steps, solution)
solution = np.array([xt.y[0], xt.y[1]])
totals[i][t: t + T][0] = solution[0]
totals[i][t: t + T][1] = solution[1]
i += 1
np.save('alphas.npy', alphas)
np.save('totals.npy', totals)
The error given is :
ValueError: y0 must be 1-dimensional.
And it comes from the 'solve_ivp' function of scipy because it doesn't accept the format of the numpy function meshgrid. I know I could run some loops and get over it but I'm assuming there must be a 'good' way to do it using numpy and scipy. I accept advice for the rest of the code too.

Yes, you can do that, in several variants. The question remains if it is advisable.
To implement a generally usable ODE integrator, it needs to be abstracted from the models. Most implementations do that by having the state space a flat-array vector space, some allow a vector space engine to be passed as parameter, so that structured vector spaces can be used. The scipy integrators are not of this type.
So you need to translate the states to flat vectors for the integrator, and back to the structured state for the model.
def encode(X,Y): return np.concatenate([X.flatten(),Y.flatten()])
def decode(U): return U.reshape([2,grid_points,grid_points])
Then you can implement the ODE function as
def eq(t,U):
X,Y = decode(U)
Vec = V * np.sin(2 * np.pi * x[1] / L)
if int(t/T)%2==0:
return encode(Vec, np.zeros(Vec.shape))
else:
return encode(np.zeros(Vec.shape), Vec)
with initial value
U0 = encode(X,Y)
Then this can be directly integrated over the whole time span.
Why this might be not such a good idea: Thinking of each grid point and its trajectory separately, each trajectory has its own sequence of adapted time steps for the given error level. In integrating all simultaneously, the adapted step size is the minimum over all trajectories at the given time. Thus while the individual trajectories might have only short intervals with very small step sizes amid long intervals with sparse time steps, these can overlap in the ensemble to result in very small step sizes everywhere.
If you go beyond the testing stage, switch to a more compiled solver implementation, odeint is a Fortran code with wrappers, so half a solution. JITcode translates to C code and links with the compiled solver behind odeint. Leaving python you get sundials, the diffeq module of julia-lang, or boost::odeint.

TL;DR
I don't think you can "integrate the differential equations starting for each point of the grid at once".
MWE
Please try to provide a MWE to reproduce your problem, like you said : "I don't think the rest of the code really matters", and it makes it harder for people to understand your problem.
Understanding how to talk to the solver
Before answering your question, there are several things that seem to be misunderstood :
by defining time_steps = np.arange(t, t + T) and then calling solve_ivp(eq, time_steps, solution) : the second argument of solve_ivp is the time span you want the solution for, ie, the "start" and "stop" time as a 2-uple. Here your time_steps is 30-long (for the first loop), so I would probably replace it by (t, t+T). Look for t_span in the doc.
from what I understand, it seems like you want to control each iteration of the numerical resolution : that's not how solve_ivp works. More over, I think you want to switch the function "eq" at each iteration. Since you have to pass the "the right hand side" of the equation, you need to wrap this behavior inside a function. It would not work (see right after) but in terms of concept something like this:
def RHS(t, x):
# unwrap your variables, condition is like an additional variable of your problem,
# with a very simple differential equation
x0, x1, condition = x
# compute new results for x0 and x1
if condition:
x0_out, x1_out = V * np.sin(2 * np.pi * x[1] / L), 0.0
else:
x0_out, x1_out = 0.0, V * np.sin(2 * np.pi * x[1] / L)
# compute new result for condition
condition_out = not(condition)
return [x0_out, x1_out, condition_out]
This would not work because the evolution of condition doesn't satisfy some mathematical properties of derivation/continuity. So condition is like a boolean switch that parametrizes the model, we can use global to control the state of this boolean :
condition = True
def RHS_eq(t, y):
global condition
x0, x1 = y
# compute new results for x0 and x1
if condition:
x0_out, x1_out = V * np.sin(2 * np.pi * x1 / L), 0.0
else:
x0_out, x1_out = 0.0, V * np.sin(2 * np.pi * x1 / L)
# update condition
condition = 0 if condition==1 else 1
return [x0_out, x1_out]
finaly, and this is the ValueError you mentionned in your post : you define solution = np.array([X, Y]) which actually is initial condition and supposed to be "y0: array_like, shape (n,)" where n is the number of variable of the problem (in the case of [x0_out, x1_out] that would be 2)
A MWE for a single initial condition
All that being said, lets start with a simple MWE for a single starting point (0.5,0.5), so we have a clear view of how to use the solver :
import numpy as np
from scipy.integrate import solve_ivp
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
# initial conditions for x0, x1, and condition
initial = [0.5, 0.5]
condition = True
# time span
t_span = (0, 100)
# constants
V = 1
L = 1
# define the "model", ie the set of equations of t
def RHS_eq(t, y):
global condition
x0, x1 = y
# compute new results for x0 and x1
if condition:
x0_out, x1_out = V * np.sin(2 * np.pi * x1 / L), 0.0
else:
x0_out, x1_out = 0.0, V * np.sin(2 * np.pi * x1 / L)
# update condition
condition = 0 if condition==1 else 1
return [x0_out, x1_out]
solution = solve_ivp(RHS_eq, # Right Hand Side of the equation(s)
t_span, # time span, a 2-uple
initial, # initial conditions
)
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.plot(solution.t,
solution.y[0],
label="x0")
ax.plot(solution.t,
solution.y[1],
label="x1")
ax.legend()
Final answer
Now, what we want is to do the exact same thing but for various initial conditions, and from what I understand, we can't : again, quoting the doc
y0 : array_like, shape (n,) : Initial state. . The solver's initial condition only allows one starting point vector.
So to answer the initial question : I don't think you can "integrate the differential equations starting for each point of the grid at once".

How to Insert an Array of Values to a Symbolic Function in Python

I want to study symbolic functions in python. I want to create y(x) = x^2 + 2x + 3 and plot it in the range [1, 255]. I want to use the subs() function to calculate the values by using the for loop. However, when I run that I get this error:
IndexError('list index out of range')
Can you help me please?
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plot
from sympy import *
a = [1,2,3]
x = Symbol('x')
fx = a[0]*x**2 + a[1]*x + a[2]
t = list(range(1,256))
y = np.zeros(256)
for i in t:
y[i] = fx.subs({x:t[i]})
plot.plot(t,y)
plot.show()

Just replace with the following lines:
y = np.zeros(len(t))
for i in range(len(t)):
y[i] = fx.subs({x:t[i]})
The problem was that the length of t was only 255 but the len of y was 256 in your code because you define y = np.zeros(256), hence the Index Error because there is no t[256]. I am using y = np.zeros(len(t)) because you have as many y points as t (or x) points. By the way, you are most likely to get an error in your plot command the way it is right now because you have called import matplotlib.pyplot as plot. I would simply call it plt instead of plot
Output

Solving an ordinary differential equation on a fixed grid (preferably in python)

I have a differential equation of the form
dy(x)/dx = f(y,x)
that I would like to solve for y.
I have an array xs containing all of the values of x for which I need ys.
For only those values of x, I can evaluate f(y,x) for any y.
How can I solve for ys, preferably in python?
MWE
import numpy as np
# these are the only x values that are legal
xs = np.array([0.15, 0.383, 0.99, 1.0001])
# some made up function --- I don't actually have an analytic form like this
def f(y, x):
if not np.any(np.isclose(x, xs)):
return np.nan
return np.sin(y + x**2)
# now I want to know which array of ys satisfies dy(x)/dx = f(y,x)

Assuming you can use something simple like Forward Euler...
Numerical solutions will rely on approximate solutions at previous times. So if you want a solution at t = 1 it is likely you will need the approximate solution at t<1.
My advice is to figure out what step size will allow you to hit the times you need, and then find the approximate solution on an interval containing those times.
import numpy as np
#from your example, smallest step size required to hit all would be 0.0001.
a = 0 #start point
b = 1.5 #possible end point
h = 0.0001
N = float(b-a)/h
y = np.zeros(n)
t = np.linspace(a,b,n)
y[0] = 0.1 #initial condition here
for i in range(1,n):
y[i] = y[i-1] + h*f(t[i-1],y[i-1])
Alternatively, you could use an adaptive step method (which I am not prepared to explain right now) to take larger steps between the times you need.
Or, you could find an approximate solution over an interval using a coarser mesh and interpolate the solution.
Any of these should work.

I think you should first solve ODE on a regular grid, and then interpolate solution on your fixed grid. The approximate code for your problem
import numpy as np
from scipy.integrate import odeint
from scipy import interpolate
xs = np.array([0.15, 0.383, 0.99, 1.0001])
# dy/dx = f(x,y)
def dy_dx(y, x):
return np.sin(y + x ** 2)
y0 = 0.0 # init condition
x = np.linspace(0, 10, 200)# here you can control an accuracy
sol = odeint(dy_dx, y0, x)
f = interpolate.interp1d(x, np.ravel(sol))
ys = f(xs)
But dy_dx(y, x) should always return something reasonable (not np.none).
Here is the drawing for this case

Storing intermediate values in a numpy array

I'm trying to simulate a 2-d random walk, with direction 0 < θ < 2π and T=1000 steps.
a=np.zeros((1000,1000))
def randwalk(x,y):
theta=2*math.pi*rd.rand()
x+=math.cos(theta);
y+=math.sin(theta);
return (x,y)
How can I store all the intermediate coordinates in a? I was initially trying something of the form:
for i in range(1000):
for j in range(1000):
a[i,j] = randwalk(x,y)
But this doesn't seem to work at all.

The main obvious problem is that you want a 2D array of 1000 points, not a 1000x1000 array. For example, you say you want to take 1000 steps, but your nested loop takes 1,000,000.
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import random as rd
import math
a=np.zeros((1000,2), dtype=np.float)
def randwalk(x,y):
theta=2*math.pi*rd.random()
x+=math.cos(theta);
y+=math.sin(theta);
return (x,y)
x, y = 0., 0.
for i in range(1000):
x, y = randwalk(x,y)
a[i,:] = x, y
plt.figure()
plt.plot(a[:,0], a[:,1])
plt.show()

You probably want something like
T = 1000
a = [(0,0)] * T
for i in range(1, len(a)):
a[i] = randwalk(*a[i - 1])
No need for numpy here.

You've got a type error. randwalk is returning a 2-tuple, and you're trying to set an array element where a float is expected.
First of all, you don't want a 1000 by 1000 array. This would give a million data points, and you only need 2000. I think what you want is something like this:
xs = np.zeros((1000))
ys = np.zeros((1000))
x = 0
y = 0
for i in range(1000):
xs[i], ys[i] = randwalk()
Also, should change the definition of randwalk to take no parameters, and to make x and y global variables:
def randwalk():
global x, y
As you have it, you're modifying the values of the parameters, but they aren't accumulated from call to call.