itaps-parallel inconsistencies in getAllVtxCoords

Onkar Sahni osahni at scorec.rpi.edu
Fri Sep 12 18:27:46 CDT 2008


Lori,

I would say num_vtx*3 as 2D meshes can be non-aligned with x-, y- and z-
axes resulting in non-constant value for the 3rd dim. (which is not
considered in case of num_vtx*num_dim when num_dim=2).

- Onkar

> Hi Carl and Tim,
>
> Right after you left today a question came up regarding what functions
> such
> as getAllVtxCoords should return for 2D meshes.   In my and Ting's
> implementations, we return an array of num_vtx*num_dim but you and Tim
> seem
> to return num_vtx*3 regardless of the dimension of the mesh.  The
> documentation doesn't specify the proper behavior.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Lori
>
>





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