User guide

Everything between the tutorials and the API reference. The overview maps every object and setting you can touch; the how-to guides solve concrete tasks; the explanation pages give the reasoning behind the choices Mergen asks you to make.

• Objects and settings at a glance
  • Defining the space
  • Shaping the design (before running)
  • Running
  • Working with the result
  • Growing a design over time
• How-to guides
  • Declare different parameter types
  • Constrain, exclude, prescribe, and focus
  • Compare criteria and algorithms
  • Extend and reuse designs
  • Export designs and reports
  • Worked domain examples
• Explanation
  • Why space-filling designs?
  • Choosing a criterion
  • Choosing an optimiser
  • What the quality metrics mean
  • How many runs?
  • Design philosophy
• Using AI assistants with Mergen
  • The template
  • If your assistant can open links
  • Why the template is structured this way
  • Reference