RE: [Octave] Mesh

[Marco Vassallo]

> Subject: Re: [Octave] Mesh
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> Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 14:22:09 +0200
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> On 31 May 2013, at 09:39, address@hidden wrote:
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> > Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 00:52:31 +0200
> > From: Marco Vassallo <address@hidden>
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> > Subject: [Octave] Mesh
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> > I would like to understand a little bit about mesh in Octave as
> > I have to use them with dolfin Mesh.
> > I have seen the forge pkg msh, but the documentation is not
> > very exhaustive.
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> Marco the mesh format used by the msh package is extremely simple and is described
> here in detail for 2D:
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> http://octave.sourceforge.net/msh/function/msh2m_structured_mesh.html
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> and here for 3D
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> http://octave.sourceforge.net/msh/function/msh3m_structured_mesh.html
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> essentially it is just an Octave structure with 3 matrix fields:
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> p is the list of vertices
> t is the connectivity matrix
> e is the list of boundary facets
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> if you find that documentation unclear I'd be very glad to accept you patches to make more
> clear and to provide guidance in helping you prepare those patches.
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this documentation is clear.
I was looking to the documentation for unstructured_mesh which refer to gmsh manual
and so I was a little bit scared.
But I imagine that structured and unstructured mesh are managed with the same format..

Thanks,

Marco

> > Is msh the only way in wich we can manage
> > mesh in Octave or there is some other options?
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> yes msh is the only currently available mesh managing package I am aware of
> and it is part of Octave-Forge, not Octave.
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> > Marco V.
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