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[Peter Brune <prbrune@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 3:47 AM, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:56:26PM -0500, Peter Brune wrote:
> > Hey -
> >
> > Here's my bundle for the cell normals in FFC.  There are a couple issues:
> > When I was calculating the direction of the normal, remove_unused was
> getting
> > rid of the unused normal code, but not the unused boolean direction
> variable.
> > Other than that, I've tested it on a few things, but not with
> restriction;
> > however; it should work just like the facet jacobian code w.r.t. this and
> I
> > wrote it so that it should theoretically work.
> >
> > - Peter
>
> Nice. I'm just wondering how the facet normal is defined here. Is it
> consistent with the UFC numbering?
>
>
It behaves like the FacetNormal in SpecialFunctions, so it doesn't orient a
particular facet.  Is there a particular reason to have it do that?

- Peter