Nodes

Inputs

[x] Wave Constant

• Implement export of frequency / wavelength ranges. Unit System
• Implement presets, including "Tidy3D" and "Blender", shown in the label row.

[ ] Constants / Blender Constant [ ] Constants / Number Constant [ ] Constants / Physical Constant

• Pol: Elliptical plot viz
• Pol: Poincare sphere viz Constants / Scientific Constant

[ ] Web / Tidy3D Web Importer

[ ] File Import / JSON File Import

• Dropdown to choose various supported JSON-sourced objects incl. File Import / Tidy3D File Import
• Implement HDF-based import of Tidy3D-exported object (which includes ex. mesh data and such) File Import / Array File Import
• Standardize 1D and 2D array loading/saving on numpy's savetxt with gzip enabled.
• Implement datatype dropdown to guide format from disk, prefilled to detected.
• Implement unit system input to guide conversion from numpy data type.
• Implement a LazyValue to provide a data path that avoids having to load massive arrays every time always.

Outputs

[ ] Viewer

• A setting that live-previews just a value.
• Pop-up multiline string print as alternative to console print.
• Toggleable auto-plot, auto-3D-preview, auto-value-view, (?)auto-text-view.

[ ] 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) 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.

Viz

[ ] Monitor Data Viz

• 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)

Sources

[ ] Temporal Shapes / Gaussian Pulse Temporal Shape [ ] 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

[ ] Point Dipole Source [ ] Plane Wave Source

• Implement an oriented vector input with 3D preview. Uniform Current Source TFSF Source

[ ] Gaussian Beam Source [ ] Astigmatic Gaussian Beam Source

[ ] Mode Source

[ ] Array Source / EH Array Source [ ] Array Source / EH Equivilance Array Source

Mediums

[x] Library Medium

• Implement frequency range output PEC Medium Isotropic Medium Anisotropic Medium

[ ] Sellmeier Medium [ ] Drude Medium [ ] Drude-Lorentz Medium [ ] Debye Medium [ ] Pole-Residue Medium

[ ] Non-Linearity / chi_3 Susceptibility Non-Linearity [ ] Non-Linearity / Two-Photon Absorption Non-Linearity [ ] Non-Linearity / Kerr Non-Linearity

[ ] Space/Time epsilon/mu Modulation

Structures

[ ] BLObject Structure [ ] GeoNodes Structure

• Use the modifier itself as memory, via the ManagedObj
• [?] When GeoNodes themselves declare panels, implement a grid-like tab system to select which sockets should be exposed in the node at a given point in time.

[ ] Primitive Structures / Plane [ ] Primitive Structures / Box Structure [ ] Primitive Structures / Sphere [ ] Primitive Structures / Cylinder [ ] Primitive Structures / Ring [ ] Primitive Structures / Capsule [ ] Primitive Structures / Cone

Monitors

• ALL: "Steady-State" / "Time Domain" (only if relevant).

[ ] E/H Field Monitor

• Monitor Domain as dropdown with Frequency or Time
• Axis-aligned planar 2D (pixel) and coord-aligned box 3D (voxel). Field Power Flux Monitor
• Monitor Domain as dropdown with Frequency or Time
• Axis-aligned planar 2D (pixel) and coord-aligned box 3D (voxel). \epsilon Tensor Monitor
• Axis-aligned planar 2D (pixel) and coord-aligned box 3D (voxel). Diffraction Monitor
• Axis-aligned planar 2D (pixel)

[ ] 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

• TODO: "Modal" solver monitoring (seems to be some kind of spatial+frequency feature, which 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).

Simulations

[-] FDTDSim

[-] Sim Domain

• By-Medium batching of Structures when building the td.Simulation object, which can have significant performance implications.

[-] Boundary Conds

• Rename from Bounds / BoundBox Boundary Cond / PML Bound Face
• Implement 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

Converters

[ ] Math

• Implement common operations w/secondary choice of socket type based on a custom internal data structure
• Implement angfreq/frequency/vacwl conversion. Separate Combine
• Implement concatenation of sim-critical socket types into their multi-type

GeoNodes

[ ] Tests / Monkey (suzanne deserves to be simulated, she may need manifolding up though :)) [ ] Tests / Wood Pile

[ ] Primitives / Plane [ ] Primitives / Box [ ] Primitives / Sphere [ ] Primitives / Cylinder [ ] Primitives / Ring [ ] Primitives / Capsule [ ] Primitives / 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

Benchmark / Example Sims

• Tunable Chiral Metasurface https://docs.flexcompute.com/projects/tidy3d/en/latest/notebooks/TunableChiralMetasurface.html

Sockets

Basic

[ ] Any [ ] Bool [ ] String

• Rename from "Text" File Path

Blender

[ ] Object [ ] Collection

[ ] Image

[ ] GeoNodes [ ] Text

Maxwell

[ ] Bound Conds [ ] Bound Cond

[ ] Medium [ ] Medium Non-Linearity

[ ] Source [ ] Temporal Shape

[ ] Structure [ ] Monitor

[ ] FDTD Sim [ ] Sim Domain

• [?] Toggleable option to 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 a unit system?) Sim Grid Sim Grid Axis

[ ] Simulation Data

Tidy3D

[ ] Cloud Task

Number

[ ] Integer [ ] Rational [ ] Real [ ] Complex

Physical

[ ] Unit System

• Implement more comprehensible UI; honestly, probably with the new panels (https://developer.blender.org/docs/release_notes/4.1/python_api/)

[ ] Time

[ ] Angle [ ] Solid Angle (steradian)

[ ] Frequency (hertz) [ ] Angular Frequency (rad*hertz)

Cartesian

[ ] Length [ ] Area [ ] Volume

[ ] Point 1D [ ] Point 2D [ ] Point 3D

[ ] Size 2D [ ] Size 3D

Mechanical

[ ] Mass

[ ] Speed [ ] Velocity 3D [ ] Acceleration Scalar [ ] Acceleration 3D [ ] Force Scalar [ ] Force 3D [ ] Pressure

Statistical

[ ] Energy (joule) [ ] Power (watt) [ ] Temperature

Electrodynamical

[ ] Current (ampere) [ ] Current Density 3D

[ ] Charge (coulomb) [ ] Voltage (volts) [ ] Capacitance (farad) [ ] Resistance (ohm) [ ] Electric Conductance (siemens)

[ ] Magnetic Flux (weber) [ ] Magnetic Flux Density (tesla) [ ] Inductance (henry)

[ ] Electric Field 3D (volt*meter) [ ] Magnetic Field 3D (tesla)

Luminal

[ ] Luminous Intensity (candela) [ ] Luminous Flux (lumen) [ ] Illuminance (lux)

Optical

[ ] Jones Polarization [ ] Polarization

Style

[ ] Rethink the meaning of color and shapes in node sockets, including whether dynamic functionality is needed when it comes to socket shape (ex. it might be nice to know whether a socket is array-like or uses units). [ ] Rethink the meaning of color and shapes in node sockets, including whether dynamic functionality is needed when it comes to socket shape.

Architecture

Registration and Contracts

[ ] Finish the contract code converting from Blender sockets to our sockets based on dimensionality and the property description. [ ] Refactor the node category code; it's ugly as all fuck. [?] Would be nice with some kind of indicator somewhere to help set good socket descriptions when using geonodes and wanting units.

Managed Objects

[ ] Implement modifier support on the managed BL object, with special attention paid to the needs of the GeoNodes socket.

• Implement preview toggling too, ex. using the relevant node tree collections
• Remember, the managed object is "dumb". It's the node's responsibility to react to any relevant on_value_change, and forward all state needed by the modifier to the managed obj. It's only the managed obj's responsibility to not update any modifier value that wouldn't change anything. 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).

Node Base Class

[ ] Dedicated draw_preview-type draw functions for plot customizations.

• For now, previewing isn't something I think should be part of the node Custom @cache/@lru_cache/@cached_property which caches by instance ID (possibly based on beartype or pydantic). 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 It seems that node.inputs and node.outputs allows the use of a move method, which may allow reordering sockets dynamically, which we should expose to the user as user-configurable ordering rules (maybe resolved with a constraint solver). [?] Mechanism for dynamic names (ex. "Library Medium" becoming "Au Medium") Mechanism for selecting a blender object managed by a particular node. Mechanism for ex. specially coloring a node that is currently participating in the preview.

Socket Base Class

[ ] A feature use_array which allows a socket to declare that it can be both a single value and array-like (possibly constrained to a given shape). This should also allow the SocketDef to request that the input socket be initialised as a multi-input socket, once Blender updates to support those.

• Implement a shape-selector, with a dropdown for dimensionality and an appropriate IntegerVectorProperty for each kind of shape (supporting also straight-up inf), which is declared to the node that supports array-likeness so it can decide how exactly to expose properties in the array-like context of things. Make to_sockets no-consent to new links from from_sockets of differing type (we'll see if this controls the typing story enough for now, and how much we'll need capabilities in the long run)
• [?] Alternatively, reject non matching link types, and red-mark non matching capabilities?

Many Nodes

[ ] Implement LazyValue stuff, including LazyParamValue on a new class of constant-like input nodes that really just emit ex. sympy variables. [?] Require a Unit System for nodes that construct Tidy3D objects [ ] 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.

Development Tooling

[ ] Implement rye support [ ] Setup neovim to be an ideal editor

Version Churn

[ ] Implement real StrEnum sockets, since they appear in py3.11 [ ] Think about implementing new panels where appropriate (https://developer.blender.org/docs/release_notes/4.1/python_api/) [ ] Think about using the new bl4.1 file handler API to enable drag and drop creation of appropriate nodes (for importing files without hassle). [ ] Keep an eye on our manual __annotations__ hacking; python 3.13 is apparently fucking with it. [ ] Plan for multi-input sockets https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/14106150797a6ce35e006ffde18e78ea7ae67598 (for now, just use the "Combine" node and have seperate socket types for both). [ ] Keep an eye out for volume geonodes in 4.2 (July 16, 2024), which will better allow for more complicated volume processing (we might still want/need the jax based stuff after, but let's keep it minimal just in case)

Packaging

[ ] Allow specifying custom dir for keeping pip dependencies, so we can unify prod and dev (currently we hard-code a dev dependency path). [ ] Refactor top-level __init__.py to check dependencies first. If not everything is available, it should only register a minimal addon; specifically, a message telling the user that the addon requires additional dependencies (list which), and the button to install them. When the installation is done, re-check deps and register the rest of the addon. [ ] 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 on Windows

Node Tree Cache Semantics

Projects / Plugins

Field Data

[ ] Directly dealing with field data, instead of having field manipulations be baked into viz node(s). [ ] Yee Cell Data as Attributes on By-Cell Point Cloud w/GeoNodes Integrations

• In effect, when we have xarray data defined based on Yee Cells ex. Poynting vector coordinates, let's import this to Blender as a simple point cloud centered at each cell and grant each an attribute corresponding to the data.
• What we can then do is use vanilla GeoNodes to ex. read the vector attribute, and draw small arrow meshes (maybe resampled which auto-interpolates the field values) from each point, thus effectively visualizing . vector fields and many other fun things.
• Of course, this is no good for volume cell data - but we can just overlay the raw volume cell data as we please. We can also, if we're sneaky, deal with our volume data as points as far as we can, and then finally do a "points to volume" type deal to make it sufficiently "fluffy/cloudy".
• I wonder if we could use the Attribute node in the shader editor to project interpolated values from points, onto a ex. plane mesh, in a way that would also be visualizable in the viewport.

Tidy3D Features

[ ] Symmetry for Performance

• Implement https://docs.flexcompute.com/projects/tidy3d/en/latest/notebooks/Symmetry.html Dispersive Model Fitting Scattering Matrix Calculator Resonance Finder Adjoint Optimization Design Space Exploration / Parameterization

Preview Semantics

[ ] Custom gizmos attached to preview toggles!

• There is a WIP for GN-driven gizmos: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112677
• Probably best to wait for that, then just add gizmos to existing driven GN trees, as opposed to unholy OGL spaghetti. Node-ManagedObj Selection binding
• BL to Node:
  • Trigger: The post-depsgraph handler seems appropriate.
  • Input: Read the object location (origin), using a unit system.
  • Output: Write the input socket value.
  • Condition: Input socket is unlinked. (If it's linked, then lock the object's position. Use sync_link_added() for that)
• Node to BL:
  • Trigger: "Report" action on an input socket that the managed object declares reliance on.
  • Input: The input socket value (linked or unlinked)
  • Output: The object location (origin), using a unit system.

Parametric Geometry UX

[ ] Consider allowing a mesh attribute (set in ex. geometry node) to specify the name of a medium.

• This allows assembling complex multi-medium structures in one geonodes tree.
• This should result in the spawning of several Medium input sockets in the GeoNodes structure node, named as the attributes are.
• The GeoNodes structure node should then output as array-like TriMeshes, for which mediums are correctly defined.

Alternative Engines

[ ] MEEP integration (https://meep.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)

• The main boost would be if we could setup a MEEP simulation entirely from a td.Simulation object.