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3.0.2 5/25/2025)

update version in both __init__.py and pyproject.toml

3.0.1 (5/25/2025)

fix JIT regression (thanks @avgeiss)
clarify polarization in docstrings
improve README.rst
fix git branches
rename mie.miescalar to mie.singlesphere
rename smallmiesphere to small_sphere
rename smallconductingmie to smallconductingsphere
rationalize importing of jit and non-jit code
add testjitspeed.py and testnojitspeed.py

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Published by scottprahl 9 months ago

miepython - Restored JIT functionality

3.0.1 (5/25/2025)

fix JIT regression (thanks @avgeiss)
clarify polarization in docstrings
improve README.rst
fix git branches
rename mie.miescalar to mie.singlesphere
rename smallmiesphere to small_sphere
rename smallconductingmie to smallconductingsphere
rationalize importing of jit and non-jit code
add testjitspeed.py and testnojitspeed.py

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Published by scottprahl 9 months ago

This version improves the api: mie.efficiencies() instead of mie.ez_mie() to find the Mie efficiencies. The source code has been refactored so there is less redundancy between jitted and non-jitted code. Other changes include

breaking api changes
use core.py to cleanly separate jit and non-jit code
new function to calculate mie coefficients inside sphere
new function to calculate E-fields near and far from sphere (only validated in far-field)
new rayleigh.py
new vsh.py to calculate vector spherical harmonics
new util.py for printing complex numbers
new bessel.py for complete spherical bessel function support
new monte_carlo.py to isolate Monte Carlo routines
use black for python formatting
update all notebooks to use new api
add more tests

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Published by scottprahl 11 months ago

miepython - Add ability to get multipole information

2.5.5 (12/1/2024)

add ability to get individual multipole intensities
add 12_multipoles.ipynb as documentation
improve github workflows

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Published by scottprahl about 1 year ago

miepython - Better documentation for normalization options

Spring cleaning. Fixed a bunch of packaging details and improved the README.rst page.

Info about normalization options is available. For example, help(miepython.i_per) will now tell you

``` i_per(m, x, mu, norm='albedo') Return the scattered intensity in a plane normal to the incident light.

This is the scattered intensity in a plane that is perpendicular to the
field of the incident plane wave. The intensity is normalized such
that the integral of the unpolarized intensity over 4π steradians
is equal to the single scattering albedo.

The normalization is controlled by `norm` and should be one of
['albedo', 'one', '4pi', 'qext', 'qsca', 'bohren', or 'wiscombe']
The normalization describes the integral of the scattering phase
function over all 4𝜋 steradians.

Args:
    m: the complex index of refraction of the sphere
    x: the size parameter of the sphere
    mu: the angles, cos(theta), to calculate intensities
    norm: (optional) string describing scattering function normalization

Returns:
    The intensity at each angle in the array mu.  Units [1/sr]

```

2.5.4 (5/7/2024)

document normalization in docstrings
add version and year to CITATION.cff
remove 'v' from version numbers
add github script and workflow to auto-update CITATION.cff
add conda badge to readme
clean up README.rst
use svg images
use a single tests/test_mie for jit and non-jit tests
support ruff
test python versions 3.7 to 3.12
fix badges
remove unused functions
fix zenodo link

Full Changelog: https://github.com/scottprahl/miepython/compare/v2.5.3...2.5.4

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Published by scottprahl almost 2 years ago

miepython - More conda packaging nonsense

v2.5.3 (8/5/2023)

conda-forge fails because test files are not included

v2.5.0 (8/4/2023)

fix scattering function for very small spheres

v2.4.0 (6/10/2023)

add miephasematrix() to calculate scattering (Mueller) matrix

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Published by scottprahl over 2 years ago

miepython - Fix for small spheres

v2.5.0 (8/4/2023)

fix scattering function for very small spheres (x=0.00064)

v2.4.0 (6/10/2023)

add miephasematrix() to calculate scattering (Mueller) matrix

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Published by scottprahl over 2 years ago

miepython - Add scattering (Mueller) matrix

v2.4.0 (6/10/2023)

add miephasematrix() to calculate scattering (Mueller) matrix

v2.3.2

fix typo in README.rst that prevented pypi upload
add CITATION.cff to base level of miepython repository

v2.3.1

add DOI for citation purposes

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Published by scottprahl over 2 years ago

miepython - Citable Release

v2.3.2

No code changes, but fixing metadata and adding CITATION.cff

v2.3.1

Using Zenodo to create archives that are citable. Zenodo is stored safely in CERN’s Data Center and operated by CERN. In any case, this creates a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) that is citable and trackable.
No code changes in this release.

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Published by scottprahl almost 3 years ago

miepython - User selectable phase function normalization

One of the pain points of working with Mie scattering functions is figuring out exactly how the phase function is normalized. miepython defaults to normalizing the integral of the phase function over all directions to equal the albedo. This version now allows one to normalize to a range of common numbers:

albedo : single scattering albedo
one : unity
4pi : since there are 4π steradians in a sphere
qsca : the scattering efficiency
qext : the extinction efficiency
bohren : 4π x² Qsca
wiscombe : π x² Qsca

The normalization is done by specifying a different normalization

intensity = miepython.i_unpolarized(m, x, mu, norm='wiscombe')

See the normalization docs on https://miepython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/03a_normalization.html for details

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Published by scottprahl over 3 years ago

miepython -

v2.2.3 (1/26/2022)

update _mie_An_Bn in miepython_nojit
store data in module so github testing passes
fix build of API documentation on readthedocs
only test python 3.9 because importlib.resources is used to store data
python 3.9 is only needed for a few of the jupyter notebooks

v2.2.2 (1/25/2022)

modify _mie_An_Bn to allocate and return An and Bn

v2.2.1 (9/5/2021)

create pure python packages

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Published by scottprahl about 4 years ago

miepython - Minor update, better packaging, docs

v2.2.2 (1/25/2022)

modify mieAn_Bn to allocate and return An and Bn
fix minor packaging issue
explicitly define encoding when opening files
explicitly use .readthedocs.yaml to build docs
use rtd theme for docs
add docs/requirements
restrict Jinja2 to 2.11.3 in docs/requirements

v2.2.1 (9/5/2021)

create pure python packages
include wheel file
package as python3 only

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Published by scottprahl about 4 years ago

miepython - Pure Python Release

miepython has always been pure python, but the packaging did not reflect that.

v2.2.1 (9/5/2021)

create pure python packages
include wheel file
package as python3 only

2.1.0 (05/22/21)

fix case when scalar angle used with mieS1S2()
add pypi badge
fix notebook testing
thanks to @zmoon for the following changes:
add requirements-dev.txt
add example script testing
add workflow testing
fix Au/Ag error
fix examples that use refractiveindex.info
add testing badge

2.0.1 (04/25/21)

fix packaging mistake

2.0.0 (04/25/21)

use numba for 10-700X speed improvement
thanks to @jbecca and @pscicluna for their help
add performance notebook
add automated notebook checking
test more code

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Published by scottprahl over 4 years ago

miepython - Huge speed increase

2.0.1 (04/25/21)

fix merge error

2.0.0 (04/25/21)

use numba for 10-700X speed improvement
thanks to @jbecca and @pscicluna for their help
add performance notebook
add automated notebook checking
test more code

- Python
Published by scottprahl almost 5 years ago

miepython - Huge speed increase using numba

2.0.0 (04/25/21)

use numba for 10-700X speed improvement
thanks to @jbecca and @pscicluna for their help
add performance notebook
add automated notebook checking
test more code

- Python
Published by scottprahl almost 5 years ago

miepython - Doc updates

No code changes. Just minor documentation changes

add badges (colab, github, readthedocs, license)
change theme for documentation
avoid installing sphinx
fix restructured text errors
advise everywhere to pip install --user miepython to avoid permission problems

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Published by scottprahl almost 5 years ago

miepython - Add ez functions

Add two new functions * ez_mie(m, d, lambda0) * ez_intensities(m, d, lambda0, mu)

Minor documentation fixes * fix formatting * fix api autodoc * specify newer pythons * better install instructions

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Published by scottprahl about 5 years ago

miepython - miepython with updated documentation

Packaging and documentation update. No code changes.

Updated all the docstrings for functions
Updated all the Jupyter notebooks
Use sphinx to create docs
Docs now hosted on https://miepython.readthedocs.io
Pruned files installed by pip

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Published by scottprahl almost 6 years ago

miepython - Latest Stable Release

This version includes fixes for large spheres (added in v1.2.0) and for small spheres with size parameters less than 0.06. These changes are accompanied by significantly more validation tests for large and small sizes, as well as new tests for the backscattering efficiency.

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Published by scottprahl about 7 years ago

miepython -

This release adds a couple of convenience functions, add new documentation, and improves packaging.

Convenience routines Ipar, Iper, and I_unpolarized make it so that I don't have to look up how S1 and S2 are exactly defined.

This release also hides internal (private) routines so that your namespace does not get polluted.

Finally, two new documentation notebooks have been added. The first attempts to clarify angular scattering. The second starts to relate the Mie scattering to Rayleigh scattering.

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Published by scottprahl almost 8 years ago