kklmn/xrt

📦 Highlights

• Added the visual beamline flow editor based on `qtpynodeeditor`.
• Fixed the beam local coordinate system transform.
• Restored static-mode operation in `xrtGlow`.
• Restored initialization from saved Glow configuration parameters.
• Updated `xrtGlow` scene import/export.
• Fixed closed-surface rendering.
• Fixed hemispheric screen rendering.
• Fixed rendering of rays inside multi-surface optical elements.
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📋 API Changes

• `BeamLine.glow()` now accepts `mode='dynamic'` or `mode='static'`.
• The old `v2=` argument remains temporarily supported for compatibility and emits a deprecation warning.
• Energy-based auto-alignment for `pitch` and `bragg` now accepts unit strings, for example `pitch='8 keV'`, `bragg='8000 eV'`, or `'auto'`.
• The older list form, such as `bragg=[8000]`, remains supported for compatibility and emits a deprecation warning.

📋 Changes

• Enable wave propagation for two-side OEs (lenses).
• Minor fixes in help pages of xrtQook.
• HyperbolicMirrorParam enabled in xrtQook
• Fix wide angle approximation for edge radiation

📋 ✨ Major changes

• 1. Dynamic object model and workflow improvements - The internal architecture has been refactored to support dynamic modification of objects across the framework:
• Optical elements, materials, figure errors, and plots now support dynamic property updates without requiring complete reinitialization.
• Generated beams are stored in a dictionary internally linked to optical elements.
• Optical elements and beams are addressed by UUID, simplifying renaming and object tracking.
• Propagation and visualization can now be executed directly from XML or JSON templates.
• Beamlines can be imported into Qook directly from Python scripts (may fail for complex runtime logic or custom processing steps).
• 2. Figure errors and surface modeling - Figure error handling has been significantly improved:
• Added dedicated classes and methods for intuitive application of Figure Errors.
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🧪 🧪 Testing focus

• Feedback is particularly welcome on:
• Dynamic modification of optical elements and figure errors
• GUI responsiveness and rendering performance
• Visualization propagation behavior
• Compatibility with existing beamline scripts and workflows
• Import of existing beamlines into Qook
• macOS testing of xrtGlow

📦 ⚠️ Notes

• Importing beamlines from Python scripts may not work for complex runtime logic.
• Documentation for new workflows is still being updated.
• For now EPICS controls are only enabled in xrtGlow session, run xrtGlow with `epicsPrefix` argument. For example:
• `myBeamline.glow(v2=True, epicsPrefix="TESTBL:")`

📦 📦 Installation

• `pip install xrt[all] --pre`
• or download the wheel from the release assets and install from file:
• `pip install --pre xrt[all] --find-links path-to-wheel/`

📋 Changes

• Minor bug fixes.
• Enable custom materials in xrtQook.
• Add hyperbolic (oes.HyperbolicMirrorParam) and hyperboloid
• Add an example for applying a slope error map to a parametric mirror
• Major rebuild of the documentation on
• Add in-plane rotation to :meth:`Crystal.get_amplitude_pytte()`.
• Major update of :ref:`Tests of Materials <tests_materials>`. Add

📋 Changes

• Enable calculations of elastically deformed crystals on GPUs. Based on PyTTE code. Used both in ray tracing and
• Add predefined material classes in three categories: crystals, compounds and elemental. Several crystal classes also include
• All OpenCL tasks can be run on a remote GPU server.
• Extend the examples of 1D- and 2D-bent crystal analyzers with elastically deformed crystal reflectivity.
• Add docs "sampling-strategies" on sampling strategies of syncrotron sources. Add an example
• Add user classes of optical elements to xrtQook.
• Add an example "Orbital Angular Momentum of helical undulator radiation".
• Use python properties in OEs, screens, apertures etc. to transparently set object attributes.
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