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# Acute Tasks
- [x] Implement Material Import for Maxim Data
- [x] Implement Robust DataFlowKind for list-like / spectral-like composite types
- [x] Unify random node/socket caches.
- [x] Revalidate cache logic
- [ ] Finish the "Low-Hanging Fruit" Nodes
- [ ] Move preview GN trees to the asset library.
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# Nodes
## Analysis
- [ ] Extract
- [ ] Viz
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## Inputs
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- [x] Wave Constant
- [x] Implement export of frequency / wavelength array/range.
- [x] Unit System
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- [ ] Implement presets, including "Tidy3D" and "Blender", shown in the label row.
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- [x] Constants / Scientific Constant
- [x] Create `utils.sci_constants` to map `scipy` constants to `sympy` units.
- [x] Utilize `utils.sci_constants` to make it easy for the user to select appropriate constants with two-layered dropdowns.
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- [x] Constants / Number Constant
- [ ] Constants / Physical Constant
- [ ] Pol: Elliptical viz as 2D plot.
- [ ] Pol: Poincare sphere viz as 3D GN.
- [x] Constants / Blender Constant
- [ ] Web / Tidy3D Web Importer
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- [ ] Change to output only a `FilePath`, which can be plugged into a Tidy3D File Importer.
- [ ] Implement caching, such that the file will only download if the file doesn't already exist.
- [ ] Have a visual indicator for the current download status, with a manual re-download button.
- [x] File Import / Material Import
- [x] Dropdown to choose import format
- MERGED w/TIDY3D FILE IMPORT
- [x] File Import / Tidy3D File Import
- [x] HDF and JSON file support, with appropriate choice of loose output socket.
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- [ ] File Import / Array File Import
- [ ] Standardize 1D and 2D array loading/saving on numpy's savetxt with gzip enabled.
- [ ] Implement unit system input to guide conversion from numpy data type.
- [ ] Implement datatype dropdown to guide format from disk, prefilled to detected.
- [ ] Implement a LazyValue to provide a data path that avoids having to load massive arrays every time always.
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## Outputs
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- [x] Viewer
- [ ] Remove image preview when disabling plots.
- [x] Auto-enable 3D preview when creating.
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- [ ] Test/support multiple viewers at the same time.
- [ ] Pop-up w/multiline string as alternative to console print.
- [x] Web Export / Tidy3D Web Exporter
- This is an extraordinarily nuanced node, and will need constant adjusting if it is to be robust.
- [ ] We need better ways of doing checks before uploading, like for monitor data size. Maybe a SimInfo node?
- [ ] Implement "new folder" feature w/popup operator.
- [ ] Implement "delete task" feature w/popup confirmation.
- [ ] We need to be able to "delete and re-upload" (or maybe just delete from the interface).
- [x] File Export / JSON File Export
- [ ] File Import / Tidy3D File Export
- [ ] Implement HDF-based export of Tidy3D-exported object (which includes ex. mesh data and such)
- [ ] Also JSON (but indicate somehow that ex. mesh data doesn't come along for the ride).
- [ ] File Export / Array File Export
- [ ] Implement datatype dropdown to guide format on disk.
- [ ] Implement unit system input to guide conversion to numpy data type.
- [ ] Standardize 1D and 2D array loading/saving on numpy's savetxt with gzip enabled.
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## Viz
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- [x] Monitor Data Viz
- [x] Implement dropdown to choose which monitor in the SimulationData should be visualized (based on which are available in the SimulationData), and implement visualization based on every kind of monitor-adjascent output data type (<https://docs.flexcompute.com/projects/tidy3d/en/latest/api/output_data.html>)
- [ ] Project field values onto a plane object (managed)
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## Sources
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- [x] Temporal Shapes / Gaussian Pulse Temporal Shape
- [x] Temporal Shapes / Continuous Wave Temporal Shape
- [ ] Temporal Shapes / Symbolic Temporal Shape
- [ ] Specify a Sympy function to generate appropriate array based on
- [ ] Temporal Shapes / Array Temporal Shape
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- [x] Point Dipole Source
- [ ] Use a viz mesh, not empty (empty doesn't play well with alpha hashing).
- [ ] Plane Wave Source
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- [x] Implement an oriented vector input with 3D preview.
- [ ] **IMPORTANT**: Fix the math so that an actually valid construction emerges!!
- [ ] Uniform Current Source
- [ ] TFSF Source
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- [ ] Gaussian Beam Source
- [ ] Astigmatic Gaussian Beam Source
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- [ ] Mode Source
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- [ ] Array Source / EH Array Source
- [ ] Array Source / EH Equiv Array Source
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## Mediums
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- [x] Library Medium
- [ ] Implement frequency range output (listy)
- [ ] PEC Medium
- [ ] Isotropic Medium
- [ ] Anisotropic Medium
- [ ] Sellmeier Medium
- [ ] Drude Medium
- [ ] Drude-Lorentz Medium
- [ ] Debye Medium
- [ ] Pole-Residue Medium
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- [ ] Non-Linearity / `chi_3` Susceptibility Non-Linearity
- [ ] Non-Linearity / Two-Photon Absorption Non-Linearity
- [ ] Non-Linearity / Kerr Non-Linearity
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- [ ] Space/Time epsilon/mu Modulation
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## Structures
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- [ ] BLObject Structure
- [x] GeoNodes Structure
- [x] Rewrite the `bl_socket_map.py`
- [x] Use the modifier itself as memory, via the ManagedObj
- [x] Rewrite to use unit systems properly.
- [ ] Propertly map / implement Enum input sockets to the GN group.
- [ ] Implement a panel system, either based on native GN panels, or description parsing, or something like that.
- [ ] Primitive Structures / Plane Structure
- [x] Primitive Structures / Box Structure
- [x] Primitive Structures / Sphere Structure
- [ ] Primitive Structures / Cylinder Structure
- [ ] Primitive Structures / Ring Structure
- [ ] Primitive Structures / Capsule Structure
- [ ] Primitive Structures / Cone Structure
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## Monitors
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- [x] E/H Field Monitor
- [x] Field Power Flux Monitor
- [ ] \epsilon Tensor Monitor
- [ ] Diffraction Monitor
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- [ ] Axis-aligned planar 2D (pixel)
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- [ ] Projected E/H Field Monitor / Cartesian Projected E/H Field Monitor
- [ ] Use to implement the metalens: <https://docs.flexcompute.com/projects/tidy3d/en/latest/notebooks/Metalens.html>
- [ ] Projected E/H Field Monitor / Angle Projected E/H Field Monitor
- [ ] Projected E/H Field Monitor / K-Space Projected E/H Field Monitor
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- [ ] Modal Nodes
- Spatial+frequency feature monitoring. An EM field can be decomposed into using a specially configured solver, which can be used to look for very particular kinds of effects by constraining investigations of a solver result to filter out everything that isn't these particular modes aka. features. Kind of a fourier-based redimensionalization, almost).
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## Simulations
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- [x] FDTDSim
- [x] Sim Domain
- [ ] By-Medium batching of Structures when building the td.Simulation object, which can have significant performance implications.
- [x] Boundary Conds
- [ ] Boundary Cond / PML Bound Face
- [ ] Dropdown for "Normal" and "Stable"
- [ ] Boundary Cond / PEC Bound Face
- [ ] Boundary Cond / PMC Bound Face
- [ ] Boundary Cond / Bloch Bound Face
- [ ] Boundary Cond / Periodic Bound Face
- [ ] Boundary Cond / Absorbing Bound Face
- [ ] Sim Grid
- [ ] Sim Grid Axes / Auto Sim Grid Axis
- [ ] Sim Grid Axes / Manual Sim Grid Axis
- [ ] Sim Grid Axes / Uniform Sim Grid Axis
- [ ] Sim Grid Axes / Array Sim Grid Axis
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## Utilities
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- [ ] Separate
- [x] Combine
- [x] Implement concatenation of sim-critical socket types into their multi-type
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# GeoNodes
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- [ ] Tests / Monkey (suzanne deserves to be simulated, she may need manifolding up though :))
- [ ] Tests / Wood Pile
- [ ] Structures / Primitives / Plane
- [x] Structures / Primitives / Box
- [x] Structures / Primitives / Sphere
- [ ] Structures / Primitives / Cylinder
- [x] Structures / Primitives / Ring
- [ ] Structures / Primitives / Capsule
- [ ] Structures / Primitives / Cone
- [ ] Structures / Arrays / Square
- [ ] Structures / Arrays / Square-Hole
- [ ] Structures / Arrays / Cyl
- [ ] Structures / Arrays / Cyl-Hole
- [x] Structures / Arrays / Box
- [x] Structures / Arrays / Sphere
- [ ] Structures / Arrays / Cylinder
- [x] Structures / Arrays / Ring
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- [ ] Structures / Arrays / Capsule
- [ ] Structures / Arrays / Cone
- [ ] Array / Square Array **NOTE: Ring and cylinder**
- [ ] Array / Hex Array **NOTE: Ring and cylinder**
- [ ] Hole Array / Square Hole Array: Takes a primitive hole shape.
- [ ] Hole Array / Hex Hole Array: Takes a primitive hole shape.
- [ ] Cavity Array / Hex Array w/ L-Cavity
- [ ] Cavity Array / Hex Array w/ H-Cavity
- [ ] Crystal Sphere Lattice / Sphere FCC Array
- [ ] Crystal Sphere Lattice / Sphere BCC Array
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# Benchmark / Example Sims
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- [ ] Research-Grade Experiment
- Membrane 15nm thickness suspended in air
- Square lattice of holes period 900nm (900nm between each hole, air inside holes)
- Holes square radius 100nm
- Square lattice
- Analysis of transmission
- Guided mode resonance
- [ ] Tunable Chiral Metasurface <https://docs.flexcompute.com/projects/tidy3d/en/latest/notebooks/TunableChiralMetasurface.html>
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# Sockets
## Basic
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- [x] Any
- [x] Bool
- [x] String
- [x] File Path
- [x] Color
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## Number
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- [x] Integer
- [x] Rational
- [x] Real
- [ ] Implement min/max for ex. 0..1 factor support.
- [x] Complex
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## Blender
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- [x] Object
- [ ] Implement default object name in SocketDef
- [x] Collection
- [ ] Implement default collection name in SocketDef
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- [x] Image
- [ ] Implement default image name in SocketDef
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- [x] GeoNodes
- [ ] Implement default SocketDef geonodes name
- [x] Text
- [ ] Implement default SocketDef object name
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## Maxwell
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- [x] Bound Conds
- [ ] Bound Cond
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- [x] Medium
- [ ] Medium Non-Linearity
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- [x] Source
- [ ] Temporal Shape
- [ ] Sane-default pulses for easy access.
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- [ ] Structure
- [ ] Monitor
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- [ ] FDTD Sim
- [ ] Sim Domain
- [ ] Toggleable option to push-sync the simulation time duration to the scene end time (how to handle FPS vs time-step? Should we adjust the FPS such that there is one time step per frame, while keeping the definition of "second" aligned to the Blender unit system?)
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- [ ] Sim Grid
- [ ] Sim Grid Axis
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- [ ] Simulation Data
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## Tidy3D
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- [x] Cloud Task
- [ ] Implement switcher for API-key-having config filconfig file vs. direct entry of API key. It should be auto-filled with the config file when such a thing exists.
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## Physical
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- [x] Unit System
- [ ] Presets for Blender and Tidy3D
- [ ] Dropdowns in the socket UI
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- [x] Time
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- [x] Angle
- [ ] Remove superfluous units.
- [ ] Solid Angle (steradian)
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- [x] Frequency (hertz)
- [ ] Angular Frequency (`rad*hertz`)
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### Cartesian
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- [x] Length
- [x] Area
- [x] Volume
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- [ ] Point 1D
- [ ] Point 2D
- [x] Point 3D
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- [ ] Size 2D
- [x] Size 3D
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- [ ] Rotation 3D
- [ ] Implement Euler methods
- [ ] Implement Quaternion methods
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### Mechanical
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- [ ] Mass
- [x] Speed
- [ ] Velocity 3D
- [x] Acceleration Scalar
- [ ] Acceleration 3D
- [x] Force Scalar
- [ ] Force 3D
- [ ] Pressure
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### Energy
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- [ ] Energy (joule)
- [ ] Power (watt)
- [ ] Temperature
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### Electrodynamical
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- [ ] Current (ampere)
- [ ] Current Density 3D
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- [ ] Charge (coulomb)
- [ ] Voltage (volts)
- [ ] Capacitance (farad)
- [ ] Resistance (ohm)
- [ ] Electric Conductance (siemens)
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- [ ] Magnetic Flux (weber)
- [ ] Magnetic Flux Density (tesla)
- [ ] Inductance (henry)
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- [ ] Electric Field 3D (`volt*meter`)
- [ ] Magnetic Field 3D (tesla)
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### Luminal
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- [ ] Luminous Intensity (candela)
- [ ] Luminous Flux (lumen)
- [ ] Illuminance (lux)
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### Optical
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- [ ] Jones Polarization
- [ ] Polarization (Stokes)
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# Internal / Architecture
## IDEAS
- [ ] Socket "guarding" - let nodes influence the dynamic capabilities of sockets to prevent links (with a `self.report` explanation) to an output socket that won't yet produce a value.
- [ ] Prevents some uses of loose sockets (we want less loose sockets!)
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## CRITICAL
- [ ] `log.error` should invoke `self.report` in some Blender operator - used for errors that are due to usage error (which can't simply be prevented with UX design, like text file formatting of import), not due to error in the program.
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- [ ] License header UI for MaxwellSimTrees, to clarify the AGPL-compatible potentially user-selected license that trees must be distributed under.
- [x] Document the node tree cache semantics thoroughly; it's a VERY nuanced piece of logic, and its invariants may not survive Blender versions / the author's working memory
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- [ ] Start standardizing nodes/sockets w/individualized SemVer
- Perhaps keep node / socket versions in a property, so that trying to load an incompatible major version hop can error w/indicator of where to find a compatible `blender_maxwell` version.
## Documentation
- [ ] Make all modules available
- [ ] Publish documentation site.
- [ ] Initial user guides w/pictures.
- [ ] Comb through and finish `__doc__`s.
## Performance
- [ ] The GN value pushing currently does an expensive from-sympy conversion for all GN attributes, making it very slow.
- Generally, the issue is that we can't compare the pushed value to the existing value without a conversion.
- Also, sympy expressions can't be hashed (by default), and `str()` may be just as slow, so a simple `@lru_cache` is no good.
- **One approach** is a `HashableSympyExpr` class, which would use ex. atoms and values in `SympyExpr` to let us `@lru_cache` the sympy conversion.
- **Another approach** is to "just" make the `scale_to_unit` function faster (we should profile).
- Presumably, the scaling factors between units could be eagerly cached, then the numerical part of the expression could be used to avoid `convert_to` calls.
- Without the list format of `(np.array, spu.Quantity)`, `sp.Matrix` can't be performantly handled like this.
## Style
- [ ] Color of nodes should be a nice blue, eh?
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## Registration and Contracts
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- [ ] Refactor the node category code; it's ugly.
- It's maybe not that easy. And it seems to work with surprising reliability. Leave it alone for now!
- [ ] (?) Would be nice with some kind of indicator somewhere to help set good socket descriptions when making geonodes.
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## Managed Objects
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- [ ] Implement ManagedEmpty
- [ ] Implement image-based empty connected to an image (which is managed by a different ManagedImage owned by the same node instance)
- [ ] Implement ManagedVol
- [ ] Implement loading the xarray-defined voxels into OpenVDB, saving it, and loading it as a managed BL object with the volume setting.
- [ ] Implement basic jax-driven volume voxel processing, especially cube based slicing.
- [ ] Implement jax-driven linear interpolation of volume voxels to an image texture, whose pixels are sized according to the dimensions of another managed plane object (perhaps a uniquely described Managed BL object itself).
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## Utils or Services
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- [ ] Document the `tdcloud` service thoroughly and open a GitHub discussion about `td.web` shortcomings.
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## Node Base Class
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- [ ] Implement a new socket type for preview-only parameters
- [ ] When used, the node base class should expose a toggle
- [ ] Instead of mangling props, we can instead reuse all of the socket-based code, while also enabling composability of previews.
- [ ] Custom `@cache`/`@lru_cache`/`@cached_property` which caches by instance ID (possibly based on `beartype` or `pydantic`).
- The problem to solve is performance vs. persistence.
- [ ]
- [ ] Implement by-category sorting of loose sockets with 'move' method on `node.inputs`/`node.outputs`.
- Currently order is not guaranteed
- [ ] When presets are used, if a preset is selected and the user alters a preset setting, then dynamically switch the preset indicator back to "Custom" to indicate that there is no active preset
## Events
- [x] Mechanism for selecting a blender object managed by a particular node.
- [ ] Standard way of triggering the selection
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- [ ] Mechanism for ex. specially coloring a node that is currently participating in the preview.
- [ ] Custom callbacks when deleting a node (in `free()`), to ex. delete all previews with the viewer node.
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## Socket Base Class
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- [ ] Second-generation listy, based on a `DataFlowKind.ValueListy`, `DataFlowKind.ValueRange`, etc. to encode the presence of special logic.
- This is key to allow special handling, as "just give me a `list[]` of `sympy` objects" is an exceptionally non-performant and brittle thing.
- [ ] Implement capability system, which defaults to exactly matching the type.
- [ ] Make `to_socket`s no-consent to new links from `from_socket`s of incompatible Capability.
- [ ] Add Capabilities needed mainly in cases where we need `Any` currently.
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## Many Nodes
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- [ ] Implement "Steady-State" / "Time Domain" on all relevant Monitor nodes
- [ ] (?) Dynamic `bl_label` where appropriate (ex. "Library Medium" becoming "Au Medium")
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- [ ] Implement LazyValue, including LazyParamValue on a new class of constant-like input nodes that really just emit ex. sympy variables.
- [ ] Medium Features
- [ ] Accept spatial field. Else, spatial uniformity.
- [ ] Accept non-linearity. Else, linear.
- [ ] Accept space-time modulation. Else, static.
- [ ] Modal Features
- [ ] ModeSpec, for use by ModeSource, ModeMonitor, ModeSolverMonitor. Data includes ModeSolverData, ModeData, ScalarModeFieldDataArray, ModeAmpsDataArray, ModeIndexDataArray, ModeSolver.
## Many Sockets
- [ ] Implement constrained SympyExpr checks all over the place.
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## Development Tooling
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- [ ] Pass a `mypy` check
- [ ] Pass all `ruff` checks, including `__doc__` availability.
- [ ] Implement `pre-commit.
- [ ] Add profiling support, so we can properly analyze performance characteristics.
- Without a test harness, or profile-while-logging, there may be undue noise in our analysis.
- [ ] Simple `pytest` harnesses for unit testing of nodes, sockets.
- Start with the low-hanging-fruit stuff. Eventually, work towards wider code coverage w/headless Blender.
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## Version Churn
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- [ ] Migrate to StrEnum sockets (py3.11).
- [ ] Implement drag-and-drop node-from-file via bl4.1 file handler API.
- [ ] Start thinking about ways around `__annotations__` hacking.
- [ ] Prepare for for multi-input sockets (bl4.2)
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- PR has been merged: <https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/14106150797a6ce35e006ffde18e78ea7ae67598> (for now, just use the "Combine" node and have seperate socket types for both).
- The `Combine` node has its own benefits, including previewability of "only structures". Multi-input would mainly be a kind of shorthand in specific cases (like input to the `Combine` node?)
- [ ] Prepare for volume geonodes (bl4.2; July 16, 2024)
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- Will allow for actual volume processing in GeoNodes.
- We might still want/need the jax based stuff after; volume geonodes aren't finalized.
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## Packaging
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- [ ] Popup to install dependencies after UI is available (possibly with the help of the `draw()` function of the `InstallPyDeps` operator)
- [ ] Use a Modal and multiline-text-like construction to print `pip install` as we install dependencies, so that the user has an idea that something is happening.
- [ ] Test lockfile platform-agnosticism on Windows
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# BUGS
We're trying to do our part by reporting bugs we find!
This is where we keep track of them for now.
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## Blender Maxwell Bugs
- [ ] BUG: CTRL+SHIFT+CLICK not on a node shows an error; should just do nothing.
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- [ ] Slow changing of socket sets / range on wave constant.
- [ ] API auth shouldn't show if everything is fine in Cloud Task socket
- [ ] Cloud task socket loads folders before its node shows, which can be slow (and error prone if offline)
- [ ] Dispersive fit is slow, which means lag on normal operations that rely on the fit result - fit computation should be integrated into the node, and the output socket should only appear when the fit is available.
- [ ] Numerical, Physical Constant is missing entries
- [ ] Numerical, Physical Constant is missing entries
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BROKE NODES
- [ ] Numerical constant doesn't switch types
- [ ] Blender constant is inexplicably mega laggy
- [ ] Web importer is just wonky in general
- [ ] JSON File exporter is having trouble with generic types (is that bad?)
- [ ] Extact Data needs flux settings
- [ ] Point dipole still has no preview
- [ ] Plane wave math still doesn't work and it has no preview
- [ ] Monitors need a way of setting infinite dimensions
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## Blender Bugs
Reported:
- (SOLVED) <https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/119664>
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Unreported:
- The `__mp_main__` bug.
- Animated properties within custom node trees don't update with the frame. See: <https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/66392>
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## Tidy3D bugs
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Unreported:
- Directly running `SimulationTask.get()` is missing fields - it doesn't return some fields, including `created_at`. Listing tasks by folder is not broken.
# Designs / Proposals
## Coolness Things
- Let's have operator `poll_message_set`: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/ebe04bd3cafaa1f88bd51eee5b3e7bef38ae69bc
- Careful, Python uses user site packages: <https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/72c012ab4a3d2a7f7f59334f4912402338c82e3c>
- Our modifier obj can see execution time: <https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/8adebaeb7c3c663ec775fda239fdfe5ddb654b06>
- We found the translation callback! https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/8564e03cdf59fb2a71d545e81871411b82f561d9
- This can update the node center!!
- [x] Optimize the `DataChanged` invalidator.
- [ ] Optimize unit stripping.
## Keyed Cache
- [x] Implement `bl_cache.KeyedCache` for, especially, abstracting the caches underlying the input and output sockets.
## BLField as Property Abstraction
We need Python properties to work together with Blender properties.
- Blender Pros: Altered via UI. Options control UI usage. `update()` is a perfect inflection point for callback logic.
- Blender Cons: Extremely limited supported types. A lot of manual labor that duplicates work done elsewhere in a Python program
`BLField` seeks to bridge the two worlds in an elegant way.
### Type Support
We need support for arbitrary objects, but still backed by the persistance semantics of native Blender properties.
- [ ] Add logic that matches appropriate types to native IntProperty, FloatProperty, IntVectorProperty, FloatVectorProperty.
- We want absolute minimal overhead for types that actually already do work in Blender.
- **REMEMBER8* they can do matrices too! https://developer.blender.org/docs/release_notes/3.0/python_api/#other-additions
- [ ] Add logic that matches any bpy.types.ID subclass to a PointerProperty.
- This is important for certain kinds of properties ex. "select a Blender object".
- [ ] Implement Enum property, (also see <https://developer.blender.org/docs/release_notes/4.1/python_api/#enum-id-properties>)
- Use this to bridge the enum UI to actual StrEnum objects.
- This also maybe enables some very interesting use cases when it comes to ex. static verifiability of data provided to event callbacks.
- [ ] Ensure certain options, namely `name` (as `ui_name`), `default`, `subtype`, (numeric) `min`, `max`, `step`, `precision`, (string) `maxlen`, `search`, and `search_options`, can be passed down via the `BLField()` constructor.
- [ ] Make a class method that parses the docstring.
- [ ] `description`: Use the docstring parser to extract the first description sentence of the attribute name from the subclass docstring, so we are both encouraged to document our nodes/sockets, and so we're not documenting twice.
### Niceness
- [ ] Rename the internal property to 'blfield__'.
- [ ] Add a method that extracts the internal property name, for places where we need the Blender property name.
- **Key use case**: `draw.prop(self, self.field_name._bl_prop_name)`, which is also nice b/c no implicit string-based reference.
- The work done above with types makes this as fast and useful as internal props. Just make sure we validate that the type can be usefully accessed like this.
- [ ] Add a field method (called w/instance) that updates min/max/etc. on the 'blfield__' prop, in a native property type compatible manner: https://developer.blender.org/docs/release_notes/3.0/python_api/#idproperty-ui-data-api
- Should also throw appropriate errors for invalid access from Python, while Blender handles access from the inside.
- This allows us
- [ ] Similarly, a field method that gets the 'blfield__' prop data as a dictionary.
### Parallel Features
- [x] Move serialization work to a `utils`.
- [x] Also make ENCODER a function that can shortcut the easy cases.
- [x] For serializeability, let the encoder/decoder be able to make use of an optional `.msgspec_encodable()` and similar decoder respectively, and add support for these in the ENCODER/DECODER functions.
- [x] Define a superclass for `SocketDef` and make everyone inherit from it
- [ ] Collect with a `BL_SOCKET_DEFS` object, instead of manually from `__init__.py`s
- [x] Add support for `.msgspec_*()` methods, so that we remove the dependency on sockets from the serialization module.
### Sweeping Features
- [ ] Replace all raw Blender properties with `BLField`.
- Benefit: update= is taken care of automatically, preventing an entire class of nasty bug.
- Benefit: Any serializable object can be "simply used", at almost native speed (due to the aggressive read-cache).
- Benefit: Better error properties for updating, access, setting, etc. .
- Benefit: Validate usage in a vastly greater amount of contexts.