3D topography and paraBoundary settings make strange topography

Problem description

The surface (and plc) made from xyz 3d points is not what I am expecting.

Your environment

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Operating system: e.g. Windows, Python version: e.g. 3.9, pyGIMLi version: 1.5.1 Way of installation: e.g. Conda packag

Steps to reproduce

I have 96 electrodes and a DEM from the area (figure 1).

Figure_1

Since it's not a regular grid, I append in the perimeter some points and I set the elevation there to be the median (I believe you are doing the same)

Figure_2

After some interpolation on the DEM, we have now elevation in the regular grid (i.e. on the missing points). The whole point is to ease the creatin of the plc

Figure_3

I have appended the topographic points in the input file (rather than using the addTopo flag). That is, on the input file the first 96 points are actual the electrodes and the rest 55370 are just topography and never being used as measure.


from pygimli.physics import ert
import pygimli as pg
import pygimli.meshtools as mt

data=ert.load('trial_new_mesh.txt')
# for some reason, I can't get the paraBoudary to be less than 1.2 (ideally 0). It returns an error
plc = mt.createParaMeshPLC3D(data, paraDepth=-1, paraMaxCellSize=0.0,
                              surfaceMeshQuality=34,paraBoundary=[1.2,1.2])

plc2=mt.createParaMeshSurface(data,paraBoundary=[1.2,1.2])

...

Expected behavior

The surface is looking like this

And the plc like this

How can I fix this?

trial_new_mesh (3).txt

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