[vtkusers] SetTriangleQualityMeasureToCondition ()..??

[Clinton Stimpson]

On 02/25/2010 07:24 AM, David Doria wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 4:44 AM, Rakesh Patil <rakeshthp at in.com 
> <mailto:rakeshthp at in.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>
>     In vtkMeshQuality, there are several measures that can be used to
>     check the quality of a mesh. One of them is
>
>     SetTriangleQualityMeasureToCondition
>     <http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkMeshQuality.html#a91830cc49cf8bd2261cc6e8a2a823101>
>     ()
>
>     What does this do..?? i mean what condition does it check and how
>     to use it..??
>
>     Thanks
>
>     Regards
>     Rakesh Patil
>
>
> Rakesh,
>
> I saw that it is calling v_tri_condition in 
> Utilities/verdict/V_TriMetric.cpp. The documentation for that function 
> says:
> "Condition number of the jacobian matrix at any corner".
>
> By looking around here, I really believe this class needs a serious 
> overhaul, or at least documentation overhaul. It is incredibly 
> cryptic. At the very least, a one or two line description of all of 
> the 29 options should be added.
>

You can look here for help and a link to the pdf documentation generated 
from VTK/Utilities/verdict/docs/*
Some documentation isn't easily put in code comments.
http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/mesh_quality

Clint

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.vtk.org/pipermail/vtkusers/attachments/20100225/0aa1408c/attachment.htm>