Python rewrite of the Urb/Homemaker stack
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Owner's daylight ruling: corridors need it; retract the 61% headline
Ruling: corridors need daylight. Only rooms not occupied from day to day --
a cupboard, a store, a plant room -- do without it.

That overturns the classification 38.8 and 38.9 rested on. Those sections
exempted internal circulation, covered courtyards, WCs, laundries and
reception on my inference rather than any ruling. None are exempt: a
corridor is occupied all day every day, a waiting room likewise, a laundry
is a room people spend time in, a sterilisation room is a workplace.

Re-measured with the classification READ FROM THE CORPUS (a space is exempt
exactly when its own patterns.config declares crinkliness: none) instead of
inferred: 24 of 271 crinkliness fails (9%) were not defects -- not 136
(50%), not 61%. Overstated by about six times.

  - uncrinkliness_circulation stays at [5/6, 1.1/3]. 38.10 called its
    equality with the habitable target the purest case of an untuned value;
    it is not a bug, it is the correct answer reached by default, since
    corridors want daylight on the same terms as rooms.
  - corpus declarations narrowed 18 -> 14. usage: utility was too coarse and
    swept in Laundry Rooms and a Sterilisation Room. What remains is
    storage, plant/mechanical, utilities closets and a records room.
  - audit_crinkliness_truth.py rebuilt to read the classification from the
    configs rather than infer it from usage:, so it cannot drift from the
    ruling again.
  - 38.8/38.9's inflated figures flagged in place, with 38.11 carrying the
    correction.

What survives, none of it dependent on the classification: the 38.6
critique of the three modes; usage_daylight being mis-keyed; the 38.8 A/B
yardstick being wrong; and the per-space crinkliness mechanism itself.

ssz's opening measurement was right but its reading was wrong -- under this
ruling a buried leaf usually IS a defect, so scoring it zero is largely
correct. The narrowed remnant is that the score is FLAT rather than low, so
two equally-buried layouts cannot be ranked. Filed as homemaker-py-9gj; it
is a search-mechanics problem, not a calibration one.

Lint at parity (46); tests 369 passed, 2 pre-existing failures (ut5's stale
baseline and 1ue), both failing identically before this change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MJ84Feep79Hhm3E4zZJmnB
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.claude Scaffold homemaker-py with validated geometry port 2026-06-10 20:50:20 +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: canonical slicing genome + high-locality operators + Nelder-Mead inner loop.
  4. Penalty reshaping: lexicographic (-n_fails, fitness) outer-search comparison.
  5. Representation upgrade: canonical slicing encoding + bottom-up shape feasibility, scaled to larger programmes.
  6. Search-quality experiments (current): a long running series of opt-in levers tried against the harbor-house, health-centre, and programme-house example corpora — leaf-sharing, finish-time cell→room collapse, ruin-and-recreate LNS, 2-opt polish, multi-use/co-located leaves, adjacency-graph and bubble-diagram fitness signals, and more. Most of these are negative/null results kept as opt-in flags or reference code rather than defaults. See DESIGN.md §11 onward for the full, numbered experiment log with methodology and results for each.

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.
  • src/homemaker_layout/bubble.py — 3D bubble-diagram adjacency fitness-signal prototype (DESIGN.md §27); validated null, not wired into fitness.py — reference only.

Room codes and reserved names

Leaf types live in three namespaces that share a first character. Only the first is enforced; the other two are conventions the fitness function reads, so a room's spelling can change how it is scored.

1. Generic structural types — C, O, S (reserved). The leaves the search itself creates: C circulation, O outside, S sahn (an outside court that also serves as circulation). Always uppercase. A programme code spelled exactly C, O or S is rejected at load.

2. Programme room codes — anything else, lowercase. k1, b1, cr1, of, and single-character codes like r or t. These may start with any letter: since DESIGN.md §39.4 the generic tests match C/O/S exactly, so naming a room cr1 no longer makes it circulation. (Before that fix it did — and silently dropped it from the required-space check entirely.)

3. Access requirements — the usage: attribute. Every space declares one of living, kitchen, bedroom, toilet, utility, none. Mandatory, no fallback, and a missing or unknown value is a load error. It replaced a first-character convention (b/t/l/k) under which a room silently inherited another room's connectivity rules from its spelling — la1 "Laundry Room" was trimmed as a living room (DESIGN.md §39.7).

spaces:
  la1:
    usage: utility          # controlled, drives engine behaviour
    name: Laundry Room      # free text, building-specific

A usage value exists only where the engine treats it differently, so the vocabulary is closed: a new access class means new code, not new config. Check a programme with:

python experiments/audit_programme_config.py

which reports reserved-name collisions, the usage class each code picks up, and whether each room's size/width/proportion/crinkliness targets are mutually satisfiable at all.