So I have a need to extract the 2d manifold surface from a 3d mesh for postprocessing... BoundaryInfo will do that just fine.
However, for efficiency it would be nice for these 2d surface elements to know the 3d element that created them. To make that happen, I have been considering abusing the notion of parent - basically using the -parent pointer to store the (dim+1)-dimensional parent, and then making the parent() member return NULL if (a) the ptr is NULL as is done now, or (b) the parent and child are of different dimensions. All that is needed is some other method to get access to the not-so-conventional parent. Elem::super_dimensional_parent()? Thoughts? -Ben ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Libmesh-devel mailing list Libmesh-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-devel
