[Gmsh] Fwd: Mesh a paraboloid

[Karin&NiKo]

Hi Jayesh.

I would like to manipulate a smooth geometric object and not a mesh-like
(aka discretized) geometric object.
The real question is : is there a parabola primitive in Gmsh and how to use
it in .geo files?

Nicolas

2011/9/10 Jayesh Badwaik <jayesh.badwaik90 at gmail.com>

> In what sense do you want it to be smart?
> Do you want to reduce the number of points that you manually want to enter?
>
> Or you can always write a small C/C++/Python/<whatever suits your need>
> program to create the required .geo file.
>
>
> Cheers and Regards
> Jayesh Vinay Badwaik
> Electronics and Communication Engineering
> VNIT, INDIA
>
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> On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Karin&NiKo <niko.karin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> No one has smart ideas on how to do it?
>> I did it by defining lots of nodes and plane surfaces on the parabolid.
>> But I would like to know if this could be done by using splines, B-splines
>> or parabola primitives?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Nicolas
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Karin&NiKo <niko.karin at gmail.com>
>> Date: 2011/9/1
>> Subject: Mesh a paraboloid
>> To: gmsh mailing list <gmsh at geuz.org>
>>
>>
>> Hi all.
>>
>> I would like to produce a geometry of the following paraboloid z=x**2 +
>> y**2 for x=-1,+1 and y=-1,+1.
>> Then I would like to mesh it.
>> Would you have any smart idea in order to do it?
>>
>> Nicolas
>>
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