On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:36 AM, John Peterson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Matteo Semplice
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> However, while I was testing, I found another problem.
>> The VTK output is correct only for first order elements (QUAD4 and TRI3).
>> In fact, if I use 2 TRI6 elements on a unit square domain, the output of
>> VTKIO::write_equation_systems contains 9 nodes (which includes the midpoints
>> of the edges), but the "connectivity" says
>>
>> <DataArray type="Int32" Name="connectivity" format="ascii"
>> RangeMin="-2147483648" RangeMax="8">
>>          0 3 5 -2147483648 0 -2147483648
>>          0 5 8 -2147483648 0 -2147483648
>> </DataArray>
>
> Definitely looks like a bug with quadratic elements in VTK...for one
> thing the Tri6::connectivity() function is designed to write out 4
> linear child Tri3's, and it does not appear that VTK is expecting any
> kind of sub-triangle output, it only asks for the connectivity of
> child 0.

I just checked in a trivial fix for this, TRI6 VTK output now seems to
work for me.

--
John

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