ferreus-bbfmm 0.1.1

Parallel black box fast multipole method (BBFMM) library

ferreus_bbfmm (Python bindings)

Python bindings for the ferreus_bbfmm Rust crate.

Overview

ferreus_bbfmm implements the Black Box Fast Multipole Method (BBFMM), a kernel‑independent hierarchical algorithm for rapidly evaluating all pairwise interactions in a collection of particles. These Python bindings expose the same fast, parallel evaluator to Python users.

The library is well‑suited to problems where:

• The interaction kernel is smooth (non‑oscillatory), and
• Many kernel matrix–vector products are required, for example in iterative solvers or large‑scale interpolation.

Install

pip install ferreus_bbfmm

Then in Python:

import ferreus_bbfmm

See the docs and examples/ directories in this package for more detailed usage and API documentation.

Attribution and licensing

This package was developed while the author was working at Maptek and has been approved for open‑source distribution under the terms of the MIT license.

Unless otherwise stated, the following copyright applies:

Copyright (c) 2025 Maptek Pty Ltd.
All rights reserved.

This copyright applies to all files in this repository, whether or not an individual file contains an explicit notice.

The code is released under the MIT License – see the top‑level LICENSE file for details.