On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 02:24:15PM +0200, Johan Hoffman wrote: > We are about to start a msc project on adaptive geometry modeling in > dolfin. The idea is to introduce surfaces in dolfin, representing the > "exact" geometry, separate from the mesh representing the "approximate" > geometry, to be able to adaptively refine the mesh geometry approximation. > This is a continuation of our previous work on parallel adaptivity in > dolfin (currently discussed in another thread), and also here distributed > parallel computing issues will be considered from the start. > > It comes down to introducing a class Geometry, where surfaces are > represented in a suitable way, typically close to a standard CAD > representation (e.g. NURBS), with the basic functionality being a > projection of an arbitrary point onto a surface, and the ability to import > standard CAD surfaces. > > This should be fairly orthogonal to other ongoing work in dolfin as far as > I am aware, but we are happy for any input to consider. > > /Johan
Sounds good. Do we need a DOLFIN XML format for geometries? Or are there standard formats we should use (or convert from)? -- Anders
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