[vtkusers] Groups of Cells Using Unstructured Grid for FEM

[Dominik Szczerba]

Why are you not OK with an integer scalar field storing say a domain ID?
You can then immediately use the threshold filter.
--ds

Dominik Szczerba, Ph.D.
Computer Vision Lab CH-8092 Zurich
http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~domi


Kevin Maxwell wrote:
> I am trying to use VTK unstructured grids to visualize finite element
> meshes and contour data.  Has anyone found a way to separate cells into
> different groups (i.e. cells with different material properties)?  I
> found this type of question posted several times in the archives, but
> the responses haven't helped me much.  I could use cell data to give
> cells different values based on material properties, but this does not
> solve the problem of having discontinuous scalar point data at the
> boundaries between elements of different materials.  Any advice would be
> appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Kevin Maxwell
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