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> On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 08:08:38PM +0200, jhoffman@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>
>> > By the way, we use the name "node" for vertices, but we should
>> > probably use "vertex". Then "node" is free to use for finite element
>> > nodes (degrees for freedom) which can be associated with vertices,
>> > edges, faces etc.
>> >
>> > /Anders
>> >
>>
>> Yes, "node" is not a good name. It should be changed to vertex.
>>
>> /Johan
>
> The good thing about "node" is that it has four characters, same as
> "cell", "face", "edge". But we should change anyway... :-)
>
> I guess changing from "node" to "vertex" will be just as fun as when
> we changed from "grid" to "mesh". Not only do we have to change the
> code everywhere, we also have to rename files (which is not so fun in
> CVS), change the XML format, and replace "node" with "vertex" in all
> XML data files in data/meshes/...
>
> I have added this to the TODO list, that's all I have time for right
> now.
>
> /Anders

Yes, we'll deal with this when there are less pressing things to take care
of. I guess we have the four letter "vert", but we may want to avoid
abbreviations.

/Johan



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