<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 7:32 AM, Hong <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hzhang@mcs.anl.gov" target="_blank">hzhang@mcs.anl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">Matthew:<span class=""><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><div> b) Use Lisandro's new support for movies, and better support for drawing (there is even a Plex draw now)</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div></span><div>Any example/instruction on how to use Plex draw?</div><div>An undergraduate student is work with me on developing map-drawing (using saws) for DMNetwork, which is a subclass of DMPlex. </div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It may have bugs, but in 'next' you should be able to give</div><div><br></div><div> -dm_view draw</div><div><br></div><div>to get a wireframe of a 2D Plex, and</div><div><br></div><div> -vec_view draw</div><div><br></div><div>to get an unstructured P1 interpolant for that function if the Vec comes from a Plex.</div><div><br></div><div> Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div> Matt</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>Hong</div></font></span><div><div class="h5"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>
On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 3:45 PM, Matthew Knepley <<a href="mailto:knepley@gmail.com" target="_blank">knepley@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 1:58 AM, Patrick Sanan <<a href="mailto:patrick.sanan@gmail.com" target="_blank">patrick.sanan@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> I'm working on some groundwork to improve the PETSc documentation, and<br>
>> the next thing I'd like to look at is the User's Manual, adding<br>
>> slightly-prettier code listings (as in the update to the dev manual).<br>
>><br>
>> Before doing that, however, it would be very helpful to know if there<br>
>> are any sections of the manual which are known, by the relevant<br>
>> experts here, to require deletion or heavy rewrites; it would of<br>
>> course be a waste of time to format these.<br>
>><br>
>> Specifically, I'm wondering about the following sections, which have<br>
>> in common that they are things concerned with friendly external tools.<br>
>> I've seen new users get very frustrated when they expect these sorts<br>
>> of things to "just work," so it's probably constructive to remove any<br>
>> outdated information here:<br>
>><br>
>> - Chapter 11: Using MATLAB with PETSc . The support here has changed<br>
>> quite a lot, so I'm not sure what currently works. Is the MATLAB<br>
>> Compute Engine still supported?<br>
>><br>
>> - Sections 15.10-15.14: Eclipse/Qt Creator/Developers Studio/XCode<br>
>> users. This is likely not all current. Is this information helpful<br>
>> here?<br>
>><br>
>> - Section 15.15 : Graphics. I saw that there were some updates to the<br>
>> drawing tools recently by Lisandro, so if any of this material is<br>
>> known to be out of date, that would be helpful to know.<br>
><br>
><br>
> I think graphics is not so much out of date now as incomplete. We really<br>
> want<br>
> to be telling people to do things the modern way, but the old ways still<br>
> work.<br>
><br>
> Matt<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments<br>
> is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments<br>
> lead.<br>
> -- Norbert Wiener<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.<br>-- Norbert Wiener</div>
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