History

Timeline of Surfaces development.

Origins (2020)

Surfaces was created to provide standardized test functions for the Gradient-Free-Optimizers and Hyperactive projects.

The initial release included classic mathematical test functions from the optimization literature.

Evolution

Over time, Surfaces has grown to include:

• Extended set of 2D mathematical functions

• N-dimensional scalable functions

• Machine learning-based test functions

• scipy.optimize integration

• Visualization tools

Current Status

Surfaces continues to be actively maintained and is used for:

• Algorithm development and testing

• Performance benchmarking

• Educational purposes

• Research applications

Changelog

See the releases page on GitHub for detailed version history.