[petsc-users] MatView and complex matrices

[Torquil Macdonald Sørensen]

On 01/04/14 16:41, Jed Brown wrote:
> Torquil Macdonald Sørensen <torquil at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Using Petsc 3.4.4, compiled to support complex numbers, I'm getting a
>> completely white figure when plotting a matrix with purely imaginary
>> elements, using MatView(mat, PETSC_VIEWER_DRAW_WORLD). So I cannot see the
>> nonzero structure from the plot.
>>
>> For real matrices (still using the complex-enabled Petsc), I'm getting red
>> and blue points corresponding to positive and negative elements.
>>
>> Is it possible to get Petsc to show the nonzero elements of a complex
>> matrix, by checking the absolute values of each element?
> If we use the absolute value, how would we distinguish positive and
> negative values?
>
> The complex version could make two plots.

Yes, that would be very useful.


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