Just a few. I want to write a VectorPostprocessor like the
LineValueSampler, but for material data.

On Dec 3, 2014, at 5:52 PM, Derek Gaston <[email protected]> wrote:

AKA "ray tracing".  It's a difficult problem on unstructured meshes.

How many "rays" are you going to have?  Tracing _one_ vs millions will lead
to different algorithms...

Derek

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Benjamin Spencer <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I need to find the set of elements that a straight line passes through. I
> see that libMesh has a PointLocator that can be used to find the element
> that contains a point, which is related to what I want to do, and which I
> could use in a crude way to accomplish that.  Before I hack something
> together for this purpose, has anyone done this in libMesh, or does anyone
> have suggestions on the best way to do that?
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
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