Python rewrite of the Urb/Homemaker stack
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Bruno Postle bc59849666 y51: synthetic room-count sweep finds no clean ruin_recreate size threshold
Locates the threshold f1d's programme-house/harbor-house split implied,
using four synthetic sizes (10/14/18/22 rooms) derived from programme-house
by scaling its bedroom+ensuite module count, since no natural third example
programme sits between the two. Results are noisy and non-monotonic (n=10
mild win, n=14 clean null, n=18 strongest trend at p=0.098, n=22 near-null)
rather than a clean decay with room count -- documented in DESIGN.md #24.
enable_ruin_recreate stays default OFF; filed homemaker-py-xyu as a
low-priority follow-up (larger-N at n=18, or a non-synthetic third example).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-26 15:35:03 +01:00
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.claude Scaffold homemaker-py with validated geometry port 2026-06-10 20:50:20 +01:00
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src/homemaker_layout f1d: ruin-and-recreate LNS operator, validated positive on programme-house 2026-07-26 09:31:42 +01:00
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homemaker-layout

Programme-driven building-layout search over slicing trees. A clean-room Python successor to the Perl Urb project, intended to eventually be 100% Python.

Why a rewrite

Urb represents a building as a binary slicing tree where room sizes are derived top-down from division ratios. That makes room area an emergent property of every cut above it, which:

  • gives the genome low locality (a cut near the root rescales every descendant),
  • makes target room sizes nearly impossible to hit, so the gaussian size penalty dominates fitness, and
  • defeats crossover (transplanted subtrees lose their proportions).

homemaker inverts this: leaves carry target dimensions from the programme and division ratios are solved bottom-up for a fixed topology. The evolutionary search then only explores topology + types + adjacency.

Phase plan

  1. Solver experiment: port Urb's geometry, re-solve ratios from programme targets, score the result against the original via the Perl oracle.
  2. Native Python fitness (retire the Perl oracle).
  3. Memetic search (current): canonical slicing genome + high-locality operators + Nelder-Mead inner loop.

Layout

  • src/homemaker_layout/dom.py — read/write Urb .dom YAML into a Node tree.
  • src/homemaker_layout/geometry.py — faithful port of Urb's top-down geometry.
  • src/homemaker_layout/programme.py — parse patterns.config space requirements.
  • src/homemaker_layout/solver.py — bottom-up ratio solve (scipy).
  • src/homemaker_layout/fitness.py — native Python fitness evaluator.
  • src/homemaker_layout/fitness_cmd.pyhomemaker-fitness CLI (drop-in for urb-fitness.pl).
  • src/homemaker_layout/collapse_cmd.pyhomemaker-collapse CLI: finish-time global cell→room relabel of a .dom.
  • src/homemaker_layout/graph.py — leaf-adjacency graph for programme-driven checks.
  • src/homemaker_layout/genome.py — topology genome: base-floor tree + per-storey deltas.
  • src/homemaker_layout/operators.py — high-locality mutation and subtree crossover.
  • src/homemaker_layout/innerloop.py — ratio optimisation inner loop (Nelder-Mead / CMA-ES).
  • src/homemaker_layout/driver.py — memetic search outer loop.
  • src/homemaker_layout/evolve.pyhomemaker-evolve CLI entry point.
  • src/homemaker_layout/oracle.py — legacy Perl shim, kept for cross-validation only.