Open jfussbro opened 8 months ago
This relates to https://github.com/DLR-AMR/t8code/issues/774 in that there currently is no clearly defined reference element for each shape, that is mapped to the refined element in an orientation preserving way, and whose edge/face/vertex enumeration is used for enumeration of the refined element. The enumeration used for the default scheme enumerates the vertices of the subfaces (here edges) in a lexicographical way. The information regarding reference elements in this file should be collected in a new file and documented, and we should have a discussion, whether to use orientation preserving enumeration or the lexicographical enumeration, that ensures that two neigbouring faces have the same orientation
Currently the lookup table
t8_edge_vertex_to_tree_vertex
stores the vertices of an edge in a way, that the smaller vertex number is the first and the higher one comes second. In the case of the triangle we therefore get:{ { 1, 2 }, { 0, 2 }, { 0, 1 } }, /* triangle */
In order to keep the orientation of the edges in a closed loop, the order should be changed to:{ { 1, 2 }, { 2, 0 }, { 0, 1 } }, /* triangle */
.The same also applies for tetrahedral and for prism elements.