Great, thanks! Roman
Am 2012-11-16 16:08 , schrieb Kirk, Benjamin (JSC-EG311): > On Nov 16, 2012, at 2:38 AM, Roman Vetter <vette...@ethz.ch> wrote: > >> Dear libMesh developers, >> >> I would like to propose the attached patch (against r6373) for the >> trunk. It reflects the fact that the term "two-dimensional sphere in >> three-dimensional space" is ambiguous: It could be a flat disk, or a >> hollow sphere. Both topologies are very relevant in practice, but only >> the former is implemented in libMesh. In somy of my simulations, I >> also need the latter. >> >> The patch extends the MeshTools::Generation::build_sphere() function >> to optionally build what is called an "icosasphere" (or, more rarely, >> "icosphere"). That is, a regularly triangulated 2D spherical mesh, >> obtained by iterative refinement of a regular icosahedron. The patch >> fits quite nicely into the preexisting code. An icosasphere can be >> built by setting the new flag "flat" to false (default true) when >> building a 2D mesh in 3D space. >> >> At the same time, I have also made the Laplace smoothing optional for >> build_sphere(). It was previously hard-coded to 2, which is somewhat >> ugly in itself, but the actual reason why I generalized it is simply >> that one might want to build the exact icosasphere instead of a >> smoothed (shrunk) one. >> >> The API change is fully backward compatible due to the use of default >> arguments. > > > Thank you very much for the contribution and the careful implementation with > attention to backwards compatibility. It is in trunk as of r6375. > > -Ben > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Libmesh-devel mailing list Libmesh-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-devel
