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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:23:48PM -0700, Johan Hake wrote:
> On Thursday September 16 2010 11:46:02 Anders Logg wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:24:34AM -0700, Johan Hake wrote:
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > I added the method area to the Face class. I guess a Face is always a
> > > triangle so it should be safe.
> >
> > Yes.
>
> ok
>
> > > There might be other methods that can be usefull like
> > > normal? Others?
> >
> > Probably but can't think of any more right now.
> >
> > > Should we do the same for Facet, but then check for topological dimension
> > > before making the computation, a la the generalized volume in CellTypes?
> >
> > Facet should have normal but not area.
>
> I wont add these now. I first thought they were straight forward, but all
> kindoff R^1, R^2, R^3 stuff needs to be checked for. Leave it for now...
>
> Added a blueprint!

I thought I already did that. We have Cell.normal() which should
handle that.

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Anders