[Gmsh] Centered arrows
Christophe Geuzaine
cgeuzaine at ulg.ac.be
Fri Aug 31 08:57:39 CEST 2007
Bas Michielsen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Thank you for working on Gmsh, I am very happy with this tool.
>
> I have a remark on the visualisation of vector fields, though.
> The postprocessor shows arrows with the stem starting from the
> vertex (the point in which the vector field is evaluated). In my
> applications this sometimes gives a false impression of dissymmetry.
>
> I therefore would prefer to have arrows centered on the vertices
> and slipped in the following lines
> x -= 0.5*dx;
> y -= 0.5*dy;
> z -= 0.5*dz;
> at the start of Draw_SimpleVector and Draw_3DArrow in Graphics/Entity.cpp.
>
> Would it be an idea to make this arrow centering a View option ?
>
Hi Bas - good idea: we'll add this in the next release.
> Best regards,
>
> Bas
>
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University of Liege, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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