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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 02:24:15PM +0200, Johan Hoffman wrote:
> We are about to start a msc project on adaptive geometry modeling in
> dolfin. The idea is to introduce surfaces in dolfin, representing the
> "exact" geometry, separate from the mesh representing the "approximate"
> geometry, to be able to adaptively refine the mesh geometry approximation.
> This is a continuation of our previous work on parallel adaptivity in
> dolfin (currently discussed in another thread), and also here distributed
> parallel computing issues will be considered from the start.
> 
> It comes down to introducing a class Geometry, where surfaces are
> represented in a suitable way, typically close to a standard CAD
> representation (e.g. NURBS), with the basic functionality being a
> projection of an arbitrary point onto a surface, and the ability to import
> standard CAD surfaces.
> 
> This should be fairly orthogonal to other ongoing work in dolfin as far as
> I am aware, but we are happy for any input to consider.
> 
> /Johan

Sounds good. Do we need a DOLFIN XML format for geometries? Or are
there standard formats we should use (or convert from)?

-- 
Anders

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