lass="w">        </span><span class="sd">&quot;&quot;&quot;</span>
<span class="sd">        Get the thickening distance matrix at a given level. This distance is the amount of thickening needed before the given pair of vertices at that level map to the same connected component.</span>

<span class="sd">        Parameters:</span>

<span class="sd">            level : int. The level to get the thickening distance matrix at.</span>
<span class="sd">            obj_type : str. &#39;V&#39; or &#39;E&#39; to get 