On Friday August 30 2013 23:19:09 Garth N. Wells wrote:
> On 30 August 2013 22:50, Johan Hake <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Friday August 30 2013 15:47:28 Garth N. Wells wrote:
> >> The functions GenericDofmap::vertex_to_dof_map and
> >> GenericDofMap::dof_to_vertex_map are not properly documented (the doc
> >> string is the same for both), and I think that they are back to front.
> >> The docstring in DofMap has inconsistencies. I would expect that
> >> 
> >>     map0 =  GenericDofmap::vertex_to_dof_map(...)
> >> 
> >> would mean a map from vertex to dof, i.e.
> >> 
> >>     map0[vertex_index] -> dof index
> >> 
> >> and  that
> >> 
> >>     map1 =  GenericDofmap::dof_to_vertex_map(...)
> >> 
> >> would mean a map from dof index to
> >> 
> >>     map1[dof_index] -> vertex index
> >> 
> >> Tests (see below code) and the return types also indicate that things
> >> are back to front. Can someone clarify the situation?
> > 
> > The map was introduced to help a user map vertex based data onto a
> > Function.> 
> >   from dolfin import *
> >   import numpy as np
> >   
> >   mesh = UnitSquareMesh(20,20)
> >   V = VectorFunctionSpace(mesh, "CG", 1)
> >   u = Function(V)
> >   vertex_to_dof_map = V.dofmap().vertex_to_dof_map(mesh)
> >   
> >   data = np.reshape(mesh.coordinates()[:], (mesh.num_vertices()*2))
> >   u.vector()[:] = data[vertex_to_dof_map]
> >   plot(u, interactive=True)
> > 
> > The size of the data array should be:
> >   mesh.num_vertices()*u.value_size()
> > 
> > The documentation should be improved, and not least properly mapped from
> > C++ to Python.
> > 
> > The name refer to the mapping that turn vertex based data to dof based and
> > reads quite well when used as above. I can see that the word map can be
> > missleading. It is not a "map" data structure. It is an index set that
> > "maps values".
> > 
> > Still confused?
> 
> I'm not confused. It's clear that the function names are
> back-to-front. It doesn't matter what they were included for - they
> are members of GenericDofMap and must make sense in that context.
> 
> Since reading from left to right is a well established convention, I
> propose that (a) the function names be fixed by reversing them; and
> (b) the doc strings be fixed.

Agree on (b). I am not fully convinced by (a). 

I am not sure what your example tries to show. You are not using the mapping 
the intended way and I am therefore confused about the whole back-to-front, 
front-to-back discussion.

Johan

> Garth
> 
> > Johan
> > 
> >> Garth
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> from dolfin import *
> >> 
> >> mesh = UnitSquareMesh(4, 4)
> >> V = FunctionSpace(mesh, "Lagrange", 1)
> >> 
> >> dof_to_vertex = V.dofmap().dof_to_vertex_map(mesh)
> >> vertex_to_dof = V.dofmap().vertex_to_dof_map(mesh)
> >> 
> >> for c in cells(mesh):
> >>     print "Cell index:", c.index()
> >>     
> >>     # Get cell dofs
> >>     dofs = V.dofmap().cell_dofs(c.index())
> >>     print "  Cell dofs:", dofs
> >>     
> >>     # Get vertices from cell
> >>     cell_vertices0 = sorted([v.index() for v in vertices(c)])
> >>     print "  Cell vertex indices (from cell):", cell_vertices0
> >>     
> >>     # Get vertices from dof_to_vertex
> >>     cell_vertices1 = sorted([dof_to_vertex[dof] for dof in dofs])
> >>     print "  Cell vertex indices (from dof_to_vertex_map):",
> >>     cell_vertices1
> >>     
> >>     # Get vertices from vertex_to_dof_map
> >>     cell_vertices2 = sorted([vertex_to_dof[dof] for dof in dofs])
> >>     print "  Cell vertex indices (from vertex_to_dof_map):",
> >>     cell_vertices2
> >> 
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