[Paraview] Paraview Visualization Ambiguity an a 2nd order Tetrahedra

[Berk Geveci]

ParaView will tetrahedralize higher order elements for certain
algorithms. For the most part, this should be hidden. What particular
algorithm are you seeing this with?

-berk

On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Umut Tabak <umut.tabak at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have a mesh which is composed of 2nd order tetrahedral elements, however
> if this mesh is visualized in paraview then see that inside one 2nd order
> elements other elements are created. So the displayed number of elements are
> not correct. I am a rather new user of Paraview. The vtk input file seems to
> be correct and I am comparing that to Gmsh input files and they match.
> However, Paraview divides the tetra elements in extra 1st order like
> elements. I guess I am mistaken at some point. Visualization of data is not
> a problem since the node data is fine and I am visualizing a vector
> displacement field on the mesh. The input file is also attached.
>
> Any comments are appreciated.
>
> Best regards,
> Umut
>
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