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Question #693836 on Yade changed:
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Vasileios Angelidakis proposed the following answer:
Hi Jie,

Indeed, the volume, inertia and initial Aabb are not calculated
automatically for the Potential Particles. You have to do something
manually. E.g. if your particles are fairly angular, you can create
first a Potential Block with the same a,b,c,d and use their inertial
characteristics for the PP. (This is a hack, but if the PP is kind of
similar to the PB, it can lead to a somewhat realistic representation of
its volume/inertia/bounds etc).

Also, the principal orientations are not calculated manually, so a PP
has to be defined to its principal inertial system atm, to get correct
angular momenta and rotations.

Adding to this, since the PPs are represented by a smooth implicit
function, their visualisation is subjected to resolution issues, based
on the sampling density (using the sizeX, sizeY, sizeZ parameters in the
Gl functor) and the size of the drawing space considered (minAabb,
maxAabb).

Regarding the parameters k,r,R, they control how rounded the edges and
faces of the particles will be. Having a look in Eq. 2 [1], you can see
that "k" controls a spherical term, determining how curved the faces
are. Also, since the first term of Eq. 2 is normalised by dividing with
"r", while the second term by dividing with "R", the ratio of r/R
affects the overall shape.

In general, small values of k and r result in more angular shapes,
although we do not suggest very small values for these, since in such
cases we might have a bad calculation of contact normals. Please find a
script below, showing a PP and a PB using your a,b,c,d. To have an
empirical automatic rule, you can try to associate r and R with the
largest "d" values somehow, e.g. R=max(dd) and r=0.2*R.

Best,
Vasileios

[1] https://yade-dem.org/doc/potentialparticles.html#equation-
ppformulanormalized


distanceToCentre= 0.025
R=distanceToCentre/2.

O.materials.append(FrictMat(young=-1,poisson=-1,frictionAngle=radians(0.0),density=2000,label='frictionless'))
count=0

# Potential Particle
b1=Body()
b1.aspherical=True
aa= [-0.7295950392572228, 0.46966065591120043, 0.978755366731517, 0.4159312753165438, -0.7851930775036051, 0.32622712056941044, 0.2487629499110137, -0.32802297814039366, 0.22757387395233566, -0.34064170979743924, 0.6535371560905189, -0.534030672328059, -0.9483691932498606]
bb= [-0.5797330029669138, -0.8677701055770507, 0.0908583947065325, -0.4698271127991969, 0.37706716796452805, 0.04463765109291187, 0.9516154740960145, -0.9017571077715157, 0.6925524728306885, -0.10267768395748879, 0.3532767701547774, 0.8086775588116711, -0.0540657356796434]
cc= [-0.3627681407761932, -0.1624620329672607, -0.18380066432307973, 0.7786293458972144, -0.49121500575982796, -0.9442369119611344, 0.18040228438849618, 0.28148720112193015, -0.6845299148104668, 0.9345696971138125, 0.6693912975817099, 0.24668167116191958, 0.3125264301143626]
dd= [0.01697034586028, 0.01248528317756, 0.01173016874627, 0.01854063787194, 0.01405551559515, 0.01349450583878 , 0.01047944143112, 0.01105292067252 , 0.02109918761652, 0.01609025523102 , 0.01787444301714,0.01542370609022 , 0.01180116564426 ]
r=min(dd)/5.
b1.shape=PotentialParticle(k=0.1, r=r, R=0.5*R, a=aa, b=bb, c=cc, d=dd, isBoundary=False, color=[0,1,0], wire=False, minAabb=sqrt(3)*Vector3(distanceToCentre,distanceToCentre,distanceToCentre), maxAabb=sqrt(3)*Vector3(distanceToCentre,distanceToCentre,distanceToCentre), maxAabbRotated=1.02*Vector3(distanceToCentre,distanceToCentre,distanceToCentre), minAabbRotated=1.02*Vector3(distanceToCentre,distanceToCentre,distanceToCentre), AabbMinMax=True, id=count)
V=(2*distanceToCentre)**3 # FIXME: Not true
geomInert=(1./6.)*V*(2*distanceToCentre)**2  # FIXME: Not true
utils._commonBodySetup(b1, V, Vector3(geomInert,geomInert,geomInert), material='frictionless', pos=[0,0,0], fixed=False)
b1.state.pos =[0,0,0]
#b.state.ori = Quaternion((random.random(),random.random(),random.random()),random.random())
O.bodies.append(b1)

# Potential Block with same a,b,c,d
b2=Body()
b2.aspherical=True
b2.shape=PotentialBlock(r=r, a=aa, b=bb, c=cc, d=dd, isBoundary=False, color=[1,0,0], wire=True, AabbMinMax=True)
utils._commonBodySetup(b2, b2.shape.volume, b2.shape.inertia, material='frictionless', pos=[0,0,0], fixed=False)
b2.state.pos =[0,0,0]
b2.state.ori = b2.shape.orientation
O.bodies.append(b2)

from yade import qt
v=qt.View()
v.sceneRadius=0.25

v.eyePosition=Vector3(0.06420229007600809779,0.07990533579869238401,0.08296260554396843456)
v.upVector=Vector3(-0.240421083299934335,0.7853946365571540245,-0.5703972015816188845)
v.viewDir=Vector3(-0.4868619564481135864,-0.6059420633056463723,-0.6291261012550753984)

# I use the values below to achieve a good visualisation resolution in Qt.
Gl1_PotentialParticle.sizeX=100
Gl1_PotentialParticle.sizeY=100
Gl1_PotentialParticle.sizeZ=100

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