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Simplified Data Exchange for HPC Simulations
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What is `generate_sides` doing? #1289

Open JustinPrivitera opened 1 week ago

JustinPrivitera commented 1 week ago

Check out this clown house.

Someone took a bite: image

This was made with the test case mixed_mesh_polyhedral_3d in t_blueprint_mesh_examples.

The strange element there is represented as a polyhedron. It could be a hex. This is what it looks like as a hex: image

It looks to me like the centroid for those side faces is being calculated outside of the face itself, leading to those extra bits.

JustinPrivitera commented 6 days ago

related to #955