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[chiara modenese <c.modenese@xxxxxxxxx>]

>
> First, have you used the utils.plotDir on the entire volume of the
> assembly? If yes, I think that it is quite normal that you have preferential
> directions due to the action of boundary walls. Try to use
> utils.plotDirections(utils.aabbExtrema(.2)). It will compute contact
> orientation distribution, but inside 0.8 of the whole volume (.2 or anything
> else BTW).
>
Thanks Luc, it looks better now.

Saying that boundary particles can be identified (actually I tried with
> Python and it is quite easy), would it be possible/relevant/easy to replace
> each wall element by a list of particles in the Triaxial files without
> causing big changes?
>
You mean walls made of particles? How would you bond them? Adding a
kinematic constraint?