mesh refinement

[c.]

Marco,

mesh handling functions look very nice, well done!

From your blog:

"The code, which is available here, allows us to obtain either a uniformly 
refined mesh or to specify the list of the vertices we want to be refined."

I guess you actually meant "cells to be refined", right?

"P.s. As you have probably remarked, our functions are not able yet to treat 
some information available in the e matrix. For example the label of the domain 
to the left/right of the side elements, but we'll work on it later.."

The function msh2m_topological_properties can probably do that for you in 2d 
already, give it a look, extensions to 3D should not be too difficult.

You should now work on a work-plan for the rest of the project.

I would suggest using TDD: 

1) First write an example of how you expect the Octave interface to look like, 
   e.g. rewrite some of the C++/Python tutorials using Octave syntax, to get an 
idea
   of the classes and methods you need to implement

2) Define a smaller test for each of the classes/methods you need and define a 
timeline
   for its implementation (be conservative when estimating development times!)

3) Start coding!

c.


P.S. If you can don't miss Carnës talk today about Octave-Forge packaging: 
https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=moxoff.com_i9klpheus6342tr3jr94gl78c8%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Europe/Paris

as he will be talking about how to run configure scripts during package 
installation.