Python rewrite of the Urb/Homemaker stack
Bruno Postle
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Add objective="quality"|"threshold" to collapse_global and make threshold the finish-time default. The continuous-quality objective maximises sum(usage_quality*area), which can trade one leaf just over the 0.1 fail threshold for another just under (a fail SHUFFLE). The threshold objective maximises the COUNT of passing size/width/proportion factors directly, with continuous fit only as a tiebreak. A satisfied adjacency and a passing factor share one weight (_COLLAPSE_FAIL_W) so both fail classes are minimised jointly. Sweep over 6 harbor-house evolved layouts (total fails, base 195): adj_off/quality 192 adj_on/quality 185 adj_off/thresh 181 adj_on/thresh 172 adj_on/threshold is monotone across all 6 (never worse than baseline), so it is the new default. Residual on the best layout (15→13) is the building-level "no outside public access" constraint, outside the per-leaf model. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01M8566xAxTnwtJTkpXjYNZm |
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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
Solver experiment: port Urb's geometry, re-solve ratios from programme targets, score the result against the original via the Perl oracle.✓Native Python fitness (retire the Perl oracle).✓- Memetic search (current): canonical slicing genome + high-locality operators + Nelder-Mead inner loop.
Layout
src/homemaker_layout/dom.py— read/write Urb.domYAML into aNodetree.src/homemaker_layout/geometry.py— faithful port of Urb's top-down geometry.src/homemaker_layout/programme.py— parsepatterns.configspace 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.py—homemaker-fitnessCLI (drop-in forurb-fitness.pl).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.py—homemaker-evolveCLI entry point.src/homemaker_layout/oracle.py— legacy Perl shim, kept for cross-validation only.