[petsc-dev] DMDA VTK viewer regression: field names missing

[Jed Brown]

Patrick Sanan <patrick.sanan at gmail.com> writes:

> Am Mi., 3. Apr. 2019 um 21:26 Uhr schrieb Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org>:
>
>> Patrick Sanan via petsc-dev <petsc-dev at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
>>
>> > I was going to say something similar to Matt; to me it is worth the 1.5x
>> > redundancy in the data if I can just view the output file with "doing
>> > anything special". I have also done something similar to what you're
>> > describing with save states, and it works fine; weirdly it seems like
>> much
>> > higher overhead than it is, though.
>>
>> That overhead for 2D fields isn't a big deal for me, but how would you
>> identify that three components should be interpreted as vectors?  What
>> if they are three chemical concentrations?  Plotting as vectors would
>> just be confusing in that case.
>>
> True - I was blinded by my own use case here.
>
>>
>> > Here's what I'd propose:  too ugly and convoluted?
>> > - If the user has set any custom field names for the DMDA, interpret that
>> > to mean that they want to deal with them individually, so use the old
>> > behavior (but incorporate Dave's comments on improving the field names)
>> > - Otherwise, assume that the user wants the new (current) behavior
>> > - Document this stuff as much as possible to try to avoid confusion
>>
>> I think this sounds good.
>>
> Cool - I'll set it up.

Patrick, any progress on this?