Representations indicate the format of patterns in layers, and conversions between representations govern the content of connections between layers.
some_rep description
The description of some_rep
additionally contains Width
, and indication
of the typical (or compulsory) width of associated patterns.
some_rep find_conversion source_rep
Return a conversion that converts patterns with representation source_rep
to patterns with representation some_rep
. If no current conversion
exists, attempt:
force_conversion
mechanism for the subtype of some_rep
. Most
notably, this applies to blocked_representations, which will attempt to
produce parallel_conversions if the number of blocks match, or if one
end of the conversion has zero blocks, will change
the number of blocks to match the opposite end.conversion_solver
mechanisms that have been loaded. Most notably,
conversion_chain
loads one of these to create a conversion_chain
.