Lower memory in photon to geometry calculation#515

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Commits on Mar 27, 2026

directed_dist comments and fix docstring.
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Rewrite diffraction_dist() to use less memory by looping through structures in geometry rather than vectorising across large arrays.
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Go from vectorised direction calculations to loops in directed_dist(). Not as clean or Pythonic, but it saves a *lot* of memory.
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