[Paraview] Calculating the distance between two surfaces as a function of time during large deformation process

[Biddiscombe, John A.]

The way I did this was to use one surface as a “source” - fire rays from
this surface along the surface normal until they hit the “target” and
return the distance. Then use the distances for every source node as a new
field which is output. One requires ideally a source mesh with quite dense
points to get a good sampling.

JB

On 23/12/14 21:02, "Scott, W Alan" <wascott at sandia.gov> wrote:

>I have a user that asked the following question.  Any ideas how to do
>this?  
>
>Thanks,
>
>Alan
>
>
>Greetings,
>
>I need to quantify the distance between two curved and deforming surfaces
>(large deformation mechanical analysis) as a function of time in batch
>mode. I don't know (and don't want to know) which two node points are the
>closest. Could you outline how you would code up something like this ?
>
>George
>
>
>
>
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