[Gmsh] about background fields

[Christophe Geuzaine]

> On 18 Feb 2019, at 16:36, Alessandro Vicini <alessandro.vicini at sitael.com> wrote:
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> I was wondering whether it could be possible in one of next releases to assign a mesh background field through a list of points with associated control length, i.e.:
> 
> [x, y, z, lc]_i , i=1,...,N
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> This would be quite handy for an automatic grid refinement procedure...  

The issue is that we need to be able to interpolate the values. Without a mesh you could use e.g. radial basis functions. Feel free to submit a merge request with such a field: it could indeed be interesting!

Christophe



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