🎏 Roadmap

The following points outline which features will be worked on in the future. Even if these features are listed, they may be postponed due to complications or waiting for other features to be figured out before tackling them. For feature requests, please use github’s issue tracker.

The way to version 0.1

CellAgent (concepts + backend)

• mechanics via force interactions
• proliferation
• death
  • immediate death
  • phased death
  • make it stochastic
• Custom (individual-only) rules
• General contact functions
  • Contact reactions

Domain (concepts + backend)

• Environment Fluid Dynamics
  • PDE Diffusion
  • Lattice Boltzmann (optional)
  • Particles (optional)
• Better concepts for domain decomposition
  • Test currently proposed new design
  • Efficiently implement this new concept and benchmark
• Evaluate usage of associated types for some concepts
  • CellularReactions concept
  • Domain concept
• Parallelize decomposition of standard CartesianCuboid Domain

Overall Design

• Parallelization of default backend
• Deterministic results (in default backend, even yield same binary output when changing number of threads)
• Stabilize the new chili backend

Planned for the Future

• Make it multi-scale: varying time-steps for portions of simulation
  • Find user Interface for time input Time-Scales per concept or per concept-group
• Complete Deserialization of Simulation
• Export Formats other then 1:1 storage through (de)serialization (such as vtk files for paraview)
• Improve Python bindings for some predefined models (using pyo3)
• Proper error handling with strategies

Possible Directions

• Purely GPU powered Backend (probably restricted generics)
• Custom (adaptive) time steppers
• Larger-than-memory simulations by using sled
• Julia Bindings