itaps-parallel inconsistencies in getAllVtxCoords

Onkar Sahni osahni at scorec.rpi.edu
Fri Sep 12 18:29:31 CDT 2008


Or in case of mesh over 3D-surface curve.

- Onkar

> 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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