On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Roman Vetter wrote:

> Judging from the latest VTK file format specification (4.2) apparently
> existing on the web, mixed-number-of-component entities seem
> unsupported. A field can be scalar or vectorial, but has a fixed
> number of components for all nodes/elements either way.

That's a shame, but understandable.

> Anyway, here's my patch that adds higher order components as
> additional scalars with an integer suffix in the name to VTK output
> files, leaving the first order component untouched.

Looking over this... would it make sense to interpolate instead when
we find nodes with missing Lagrange DoFs, to get an isoparametric
result?  VTK supports second order elements, and first order data is a
subset of second order data, so we could still naturally represent it
on those elements.
---
Roy

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