[Gmsh] bug in attractor field
Christophe Geuzaine
cgeuzaine at ulg.ac.be
Wed Apr 1 20:28:37 CEST 2009
Louis Gagnon wrote:
> Dear developers,
>
> this might already be know.
>
> An attractor field will not accept Plane Surface in FacesList (Ruled
> Surfaces work fine.) It will return the "should never interpolate plane
> surface in InterpolateSurface()" error. (In 2.3.0 it returned a weird
> mesh and now in 2.3.1 it seems to refuse to apply the field to the
> problematic surface).
Right, this is "normal". Attractor on surfaces are really just a hack at
the moment--we would need to actually generate some kind of mesh on the
surface first. It's on our TODO list.
As the doc says: "Warning: might give strange results for complex
surfaces" ;-)
>
> Regards,
>
> -Louis
>
>
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