Dave May via petsc-dev <[email protected]> writes: > I'd describe how to use the binary dump and how to generate vtk files. > > The first is the most universal as it's completely generic and does not > depend on a dm, thus users with their own mesh data structure and or don't > have a mesh at all can use it. Would be worth while also providing a > minimal python+mathplotlib script which loads the data and spits out a PDF > so folks don't have to depend on matlab.
If you have a parallel example that doesn't use DM, you're gonna have a lot of bookkeeping to plot the data after loading the vector. Seems like a distraction that will trap a lot of people in the minutia instead of the big picture.
