[Gmsh] Surface mesh creation
Christophe Geuzaine
cgeuzaine at ulg.ac.be
Tue Mar 17 00:24:02 CET 2009
Mark van Doesburg wrote:
> Hello Timm,
>
> I don't know how to do this using gmsh, but you might want to take a
> look at www.cgal.org. They have a surface mesher for implicit surfaces
> available (chapter 35 in the manual). Onve you have this surface mesh,
> it should be pretty straight forward to generate a .geo file for it to
> generate a volume mesh using gmsh.
Agreed with Mark: there's nothing in Gmsh at the moment to do this. Once
you have a surface mesh just import it in one of the supported formats
to perform the volume mesh generation (cf. demos/sphere-discrete.geo)
>
> regards,
>
> Mark van Doesburg.
>
>
> Timm Krüger <t.krueger at mpie.de> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> at first: Gmsh is a very nice tool, and I like it much.
> But there is a question for which I haven't found an answer yet:
> I want to create a 2D surface mesh (triangles only) of a closed, parameterized shape. The shape is known analytically in the form z (x, y), actually it is the membrane shape of a red blood cell. How can I do this using Gmsh?
>
> Thank you very much and best regards,
> Timm Krüger
>
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