<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Sorry about the delay on this. Here's a PR - see additional comments there!<br><div><a href="https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc/pull-requests/1602/psanan-dmda-vtk-view-fieldnames/diff">https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc/pull-requests/1602/psanan-dmda-vtk-view-fieldnames/diff</a><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Am So., 28. Apr. 2019 um 21:41 Uhr schrieb Jed Brown <<a href="mailto:jed@jedbrown.org" target="_blank">jed@jedbrown.org</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Patrick Sanan <<a href="mailto:patrick.sanan@gmail.com" target="_blank">patrick.sanan@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
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> Am Mi., 3. Apr. 2019 um 21:26 Uhr schrieb Jed Brown <<a href="mailto:jed@jedbrown.org" target="_blank">jed@jedbrown.org</a>>:<br>
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>> Patrick Sanan via petsc-dev <<a href="mailto:petsc-dev@mcs.anl.gov" target="_blank">petsc-dev@mcs.anl.gov</a>> writes:<br>
>><br>
>> > I was going to say something similar to Matt; to me it is worth the 1.5x<br>
>> > redundancy in the data if I can just view the output file with "doing<br>
>> > anything special". I have also done something similar to what you're<br>
>> > describing with save states, and it works fine; weirdly it seems like<br>
>> much<br>
>> > higher overhead than it is, though.<br>
>><br>
>> That overhead for 2D fields isn't a big deal for me, but how would you<br>
>> identify that three components should be interpreted as vectors? What<br>
>> if they are three chemical concentrations? Plotting as vectors would<br>
>> just be confusing in that case.<br>
>><br>
> True - I was blinded by my own use case here.<br>
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>><br>
>> > Here's what I'd propose: too ugly and convoluted?<br>
>> > - If the user has set any custom field names for the DMDA, interpret that<br>
>> > to mean that they want to deal with them individually, so use the old<br>
>> > behavior (but incorporate Dave's comments on improving the field names)<br>
>> > - Otherwise, assume that the user wants the new (current) behavior<br>
>> > - Document this stuff as much as possible to try to avoid confusion<br>
>><br>
>> I think this sounds good.<br>
>><br>
> Cool - I'll set it up.<br>
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Patrick, any progress on this?<br>
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