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[Harish Narayanan <hnarayan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings everyone.

I was recently introduced to dolfin and have eagerly been playing with 
it. Most of the problems I work with are on hexahedral meshes, so I got 
to poking around seeing what it would take to add 
hexahedral/quadrilateral cells (additionally aiming to familiarize 
myself with the code). I've been working closely following what has been 
done for the existing Triangle and Tetrahedron derivatives of GenericCell.

I am mailing this list to first make sure this doesn't exist elsewhere 
and I am not duplicating effort (I didn't find anything similar in the 
archives of this list over the past few months), and also to find out 
what the general procedure is--do I just try it, run test problems and 
e-mail the new source files/diffs to the mailing list if it works? Is 
this of interest to other people?

I was also slightly concerned about the constructor for the class Cell 
which currently generates new Triangles/Tetrahedra based only on the 
number of nodes with which the constructor is called. I was wondering if 
this needed to be tweaked to something that knows about the cell type 
(it came up when I was going through it and Tetrahedra and 
Quadrilaterals both have four nodes).

Thanks,
Harish