PyRank
QuentinWach

beamz

GPU-accelerated electromagnetic FDTD for large-scale simulations, compact modeling and inverse design / gradient-based optimization of nanophotonic devices with Python.
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
Downloads
Day
155
Week
622
Month
3.3K
Stars
52
Forks
8
Issues
22
Version
0.4.3

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
33
Adoption
35
Community
20
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
3 days ago
Monthly downloads
3,253
• Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
3,253
Stars
52
Stars per 1k downloads
15.99
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
• Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
89
Month daily avg
108
Momentum
—
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Momentum not reported for packages with < 5,000 monthly downloads — percentages are noisy at low volume.
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
• Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
Apache License 2.0
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
11 days ago
Total releases
25
Releases/year
21.5
• Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
1
Monthly downloads
3,253
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
26
 
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
12.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

No OS data available

Python Versions

No Python version data available

Top Countries

1. US US
14
2. SG SG
1

Dependencies

14
14 optional dependencies

Used By

0
Not used by any tracked packages
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
Apache License 2.0
First Release
May 8, 2025
Last Release
1 week ago
Last Commit
4 days ago
Latest Version
0.4.3
Total Releases
25
Contributors
1
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12
Wheels
py3
Keywords
electromagnetics generative design inverse design photonics simulation
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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