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["Garth N. Wells" <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 26/02/11 09:06, Anders Logg wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 08:20:18AM +0000, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>> Why call the mesh topology dim function in Face when for a face the mesh
>> dim must be 3?
> 
> It could also be that the Face is itself the cell (triangle) of a 2D
> mesh, 

I don't understand this - Face comes from a cell, so how can a Face be a
triangle in a 2D mesh. What would it's cell have been?

Garth

> but then some (or maybe all) of those functions called may break
> down so some dimension checking + throwing an error is probably a
> better alternative.
> 
> --
> Anders
> 
> 
> 
>> Garth
>>
>> On 26/02/11 00:58, noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>> revno: 5701
>>> committer: Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> branch nick: dolfin
>>> timestamp: Sat 2011-02-26 01:36:14 +0100
>>> message:
>>>   Bug fix in Face::area() + some cleanups
>>> modified:
>>>   dolfin/mesh/Face.cpp
>>>
>>>
>>
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