itaps-parallel inconsistencies in getAllVtxCoords

Carl Ollivier-Gooch cfog at mech.ubc.ca
Sun Sep 14 16:57:14 CDT 2008


Onkar Sahni wrote:
> 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).

I'd argue that in these cases, num_dim should be 3, not 2.  After all, 
the call is getGeometricDimension, not getTopologicalDimension... :-)

Carl

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