On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Roman Vetter wrote: >> 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. > > I'm probably not the right person to tell, as I haven't been in the > situation of using such elements. From a pure VTK point of view, I'd > say why not, but I don't know how people or third party visualizers > would expect to find their data in this case.
It should be the same as for a truely isoparametric result, no? If the visualizer can handle a biquadratic element with three biquadratic variables, then by definition it can handle a biquadratic element with three biquadratic variables even when one of those variables suspiciously only takes on values that could also be expressed in a bilinear basis. --- Roy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Libmesh-devel mailing list Libmesh-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-devel
