On Wed, 1 Feb 2012, John Peterson wrote:
> A related question is: do we want contains_point() to return "true" in > cases where the point is definitely outside the element (to within > floating point tolerance), but is "inside" the element (to within > user-specified tolerance)? My first inclanation is to say no, but I'm not sure. > If yes: the bounding box optimization checks based on TOLERANCE are > overzealous. This is true. > If no: then contains_point() probably shouldn't accept any > user-specified tolerance at all. This I'm not so sure about. Think of the user-specified tolerance as just a way for users to *shrink* the false-positive region if they need to, rather than a way to grow it. --- Roy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Libmesh-devel mailing list Libmesh-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-devel
