I want to better understand a remarkable paper: https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~alchern/projects/MinimalCurrent/
The authors provide the source code as a proprietary binary code that can only be opened in Houdini. A .hipnc file. The binary data can be viewed in other applications, but not the source code.
Opening the file with the free licensed version of Houdini shows some graphical output.
However searching around in the documentation and playing with the UI I cannot find a text editor to actually see the source code of what the researchers were doing.
Given the original paper description, I know that the source code is contained in the Houdini file. The authors explicitly say so. But I cannot find documentation describing how to see that source code.

Houdini is described as an "IDE for computer graphics", and not a typical code/script editor. In the context of this question, the
.hipncfile contains a workflow comprising network nodes, which looks something like below inNetwork View:Assuming you are interested in the
mincurr_FFT_solvernode, you can use the built-inPython Shellto get the source code of any given node:Results when written to file:
To address this question, I had to consult information related to Python SOP (surface operators in Houdini), such as: https://github.com/kiryha/Houdini/wiki/python-for-artists#python-integration-basics