Hi Nikolav,

The limits are set only to define the initial sampling of the population. The optimisation procedure can subsequently move anywhere it likes, which is handy when the initial bounderies were not chosen properly. If you want to restrict your search area, i suggested your reparametrise your refineable variables such that they map from [a,b] to (-infty,+infty)

HTH

Peter

2010/7/13 Nikolay Mladenov <nikolay.mladenov@gmail.com>

Hello all,

Having nothing to do with crystallography, I downloaded cctbx only to use the python implementation
of the differential evaluation.

I am not knowledgeable about the details of the algorithm so I have to ask this question:

Is it normal to have population members with coordinates outside of the specified limits?

Thanks and regards,

Nikolay Mladenov

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