PackingGeneration (Unix fork)

Linux/Unix focused revival of the original hard‑sphere packing generator by Vasili Baranov.

Removed abandoned Visual Studio artifacts and supply a simple portable build so the code can still be compiled and used on modern systems.

Key changes:

• Dropped Visual Studio artifacts
• Added straightforward Makefile
• Added .gitignore
• No algorithm logic touched

Quick build:

make              # release
make debug        # debug
PARALLEL=1 make   # enable MPI if toolchain has it

Run (searches for generation.conf files recursively):

./bin/packing_generation

For algorithms, parameters, documentation, and citation details (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.580324) see the original upstream project. Cite the original authors for any scientific use.

License: MIT (see LICENSE.txt).

Further modernization (warnings cleanup, CMake, tests, CI) intentionally left for future incremental contributions.

Future work (planned):

• Usable Python interface (bindings for generation + analysis)
• Unified VTK & HDF5 output pipeline (structured + binary scientific data)
• Systematic warning & error cleanup
• Performance optimizations