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["Garth N. Wells" <g.n.wells@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Luca Antiga <luca.antiga@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Dear Dolfin developers,
>   I've looked into Dolfin today and it's a really impressive piece of
> software. Congratulations for your work.
> Just a curiosity: how hard it would be to code different element types (e.g.
> quadratic tetrahedra or prisms) into Dolfin?

Tetrahedra of any order can be implemented using FFC to generate the code for
DOLFIN. Non-simplex elements are not currently implemented, but will be when
DOLFIN moves to a new data structure for representing meshes (Sieve). Keep an
eye on the web page for this. 

Garth


> Thanks a lot
> 
> Luca
> 
> 
> 
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