Re: [Getfem-users] Default geometric transformation for cartesian mesh constructor

[Konstantinos Poulios]

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Yves Renard <address@hidden> wrote:
> On mardi 7 juin 2011, Konstantinos Poulios wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I recently realized that the cartesian mesh constructor in the
>> python/matlab interface uses parallelepiped_linear_geotrans as
>> transformation, couldn't it use parallelepiped_geotrans instead?
>> Shouldn't the user have the possibility to choose which transformation
>> to use? If there are no objections I could add an optional flag to the
>> cartesian mesh constructor to let the user choose a non linear
>> transformation so that the generated mesh could be reshaped
>> afterwards.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Kostas
>
> No objection. This is an interesting option.
>
> Yves.
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would it make sense to call it like:

m = getfem.Mesh('cartesian non-affine', ....)

?

I am not sure if the term non-affine is correct here. "Bilinear" would
be correct for only two dimensions, right? Any better suggestion?

Kostas