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+
+11/08/2025 Add work plan as below:
+
+- This repo will be reconstructed with Snakemake files.
+- For now, there is only first-order homogenization python file, which contains tile function, we plan to use new functions to decouple micro and macro meshes.
diff --git a/config.yaml b/config.yaml
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diff --git a/matplotlibrc b/matplotlibrc
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+axes.spines.right: False
+axes.spines.top: False
+axes.facecolor: 0.98
+axes.labelsize: 10
+#axes.grid: True
+grid.linestyle: --
+xtick.minor.visible: True
+ytick.minor.visible: True
+font.family: sans-serif
+font.sans-serif: Roboto Condensed, DejaVu Sans
+font.size: 9
+figure.autolayout: True
+savefig.bbox: tight
+savefig.pad_inches: 0.1  # to modify if problems
+#savefig.transparent: True
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+numpy
+scipy
+matplotlib
+marimo
+snakemake
+jupyterlab
+jupyter