Questions tagged [mesh]
Questions on the use and creation of meshes including the use of MeshRegion, ElementMesh, and TetGenLink.
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How can we find the longitude that cuts all the land on Earth in half?
Mathematica has already a specific function, RegionCentroid, that can be utilized to calculate the geographic center of any region. As it has been discussed in here ...
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Does DelaunayMesh use exact computations? What is the treatment of non-generic cases?
Computing Delaunay complexes can be sensitive to numerical instabilities, especially in higher dimensions. I would like to know how much I can rely on Mathematica's answers when using ...
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AceFem Error in SMTShowMesh
I consider for a calculation a sphere embedded within a matrix. To plot the results and especially the behavior around the spherical inclusion I want to "cut" through the matrix. That seems ...
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Create a spherical Hex mesh from given surface points
For my calculations I got two spherical meshes. One is a surface mesh of quadrilateral elements and the other is the corresponding "inner" hex mesh. The problem with the meshes is, that the ...
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How to make a 3D listplot with meshlines going only along one cartesian coordinate?
I have an external python code that computes a bunch of data, which I read into Mathematica as a table, so: Import["Documents\Hubbard\Python\data.dat", "Table"];
These files are ...
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Export 3D Mesh without shading issues
I can export a mesh to a .obj file such as with the following:
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FEM: how to redo a composed boundary mesh for better quality?
Suppose you have region with 2 materials: one embedding material (matrix) containing some particles (...
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Export ComplexPlot3D as Mesh with Material
If I generate a complexplot as follows:
a1 = ComplexPlot3D[Log[z], {z, -5 - 5 I, 5 + 5 I}]
I can export it to a 3D mesh (for use in external applications) with:
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Mesh with Prescribed Vertices
Mathematica has documentation for triangulating regions bounded by curves using e.g. TriangulateMesh. This is very useful for the work that I (aspire to) do drawing pictures of complicated surfaces ...
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Extrude 3D list with thickness n
I have a 3 dimensional list of points which i would like to extrude in z coordinate with thickness n, i.e. z_{i} -> z_{i}+n for all points in z. There is a similar question concerning 2d list where ...
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Plotting fundamental domains of $\mathbb{Z}^{2}$ with additional features [closed]
I'm trying to figure out how to plot a region that looks like this:
The squares don't have to be painted like that, if I could have just light green, gray, light blue and light red it would be great. ...
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Solving PDE with prescribed rectangular mesh
Question: I want to solve a PDE using NDEigensystem. The region is a rectangle Rectangle[{0,-70}, {20, 70}]. How can I make a ...
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Finding points of intersections between contours and mesh functions in ContourPlot3D
I have this code example that finds plane of zero first derivatives - the intersections of these planes will give the locations of the local extrema. Or at least a good starting point to finding them.
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ContourPlot and MeshFunctions issue between versions 11.3 and 12.0
On Mathematica 11.3
This code produces the image below (a set of points that I am then using as a pattern for FindRoot):
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How to find the MeshConnectivityGraph[] from a list of independent cell mesh regions?
I'm generating a bunch of points inside a BoundaryMeshRegion. Then I generate the Voronoi mesh of the points, and take the intersection of the Voronoi cells into ...
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How do I discretize Line objects
I have a polygon object that I wish to discretize.
e.g.
points0 = {{0, 0}, {1, 2}, {1, 0}, {0, 0}}
DiscretizeRegion[Line[points0]]
My goal is to increase the ...
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Marking with Mesh, Distinct coloring, Ticksing, and Plotting table of complex function with parametric plot
Here is my todo list and what i've done:
Using FrameTicks on specific points only (failed).
Plotting six graphs with Table on <...
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Linux crash DiscretizeRegion
Good evening,
can anyone confirm this bug on his/her Linux machine and Windows machine?
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Save data from TriangulateMesh
Is it possible to extract the coordinates from each triangle after using TriangulateMesh? It sounds very weird but i really need it for one of my projects. I have to save each triangle separately in a ...
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Meshing an inclusion in an inclusion
I do have FEM mesh related question. I am trying to mesh some inclusion from a png file using ToElementMesh. Thats working quite nicely even for more complex structures.
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Wafer Chucking Model
I am trying to calculate the pressure required to flatten a bowed wafer.
The simple model I am using for the study has a bottom layer (the bowed wafer) pushed against a harder flat surface as shown in ...
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Showing coordinates of a point in a Graphics3D object with cursor scrolling over it
I would like to know how one can coax Mathematica to reveal the coordinates of a generic Graphics3D object. Consider, e.g., the unit sphere:
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Graph embedding constrained to a surface?
Have been contemplating it for a while, but did not dare to post as I felt like this must be a major undertaking to implement. Then saw the excellent answers to a recent question RegionPlot3D KnotData ...
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Fix (decompose) Degenerate Polygon (vertex coincides with edge)
The code
Polygon[{{0,0},{3,0},{3,3},{1,3},{1,1},{2,2},{2,1},{0,1}}]
produces, according to Mathematica, a disconnected polygon with 0 area. The vertex ...
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How to control floating point precision when `Export`ing to obj format?
Suppose we have a MeshRegion that we want to export to an obj file with, say double precision. Is that possible with Export? And ...
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Meshing four region from four polygon
I'm trying to generate mesh for axial symetric heat transfer model.
The model contains four regions build from four different kinds of materials.
Inside the steel component is empty air hole present.
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Using DiscretizeGraphics on a Graphics3D object that is produced by combining multiple Graphics3D objects
Consider the following two Graphics3D objects that can individually be meshed using DiscretizeGraphics. The first is a cone (...
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Unwanted scaling when overlaying GraphicsComplex graphic onto image?
I have a collection of complex hull meshes, which I would like to overlay onto an image. These complex hull meshes were obtained from the original image, and I have verified that their mesh ...
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How to create random isolated clusters periodically?
Let's assume we have a $n \times n$ grid repeated periodically, and I want to create some random isolated patches on it (and assign some value to those grid points).
For a simple example consider this ...
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There are mesh grids when Export RegionPlot
When setting the Opacity option, there are mesh grids on the background of the pdf file. Opacity option should be saved because ...
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PeriodicInterpolation does not work in ElementMeshInterpolation
I want to use ElementMeshInterpolation to generate interpolation function with periodic boundary condition.
I use below data as an example
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What is quadratic TriangleElement in ToElementMesh? [duplicate]
TriangleElement support 3 points and 6 points triangles. In the documentation of TriangleElement, it explains
For quadratic ...
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How to refine a boundary mesh with MeshRefinementFunction?
MeshRefinementFunction works well to refine elements in a defined spatial domain (here x>0):
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How can I find polygons in convex hull?
From some geometric computations I get a lot of 3 dimensional points. From theory I know two facts: The points define a convex polyhedron, and this polyhedron has non-regular 3-, 4- and 5-gons as ...
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Constraints and Tolerance
So I'm running NMaximize for optimizing a value and for constraints, I need the parameters to belong to a discrete set of elements. Basically, the constraint looks ...
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Meaning of LineElement in Mathematica? [closed]
Line element in mathematics is generally defined as the following:
$\qquad ds^2 = dx^2 + dy^2$
In Mathematica, the documentation of LineElement says:
$\mathtt{...
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How to get a clean RegionDifference product
I want to get the difference between the following two regions, an annulus and a crown:
Here's the code:
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Change mesh density of Graphics3D object made of Triangles
I am new to mesh discretisation on Mathematica. I have a Graphics3D object made up of Triangles, that I would like to convert ...
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MeshRefinementFunction on 2D surfaces embedded in 3D
DiscretizeRegion doesn't seem to run the supplied MeshRefinementFunction when meshing a 2D surface in 3D.
For example:
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colouring Voronoi cells by their properties
I put a couple of previous posts together
How can find the 2D Voronoi cell area distribution?
Color code Voronoi cell areas depending on number of vertices
color voronoi cell based on area
to make the ...
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Neumann boundary condition ignored
Im trying to solve a system of two PDE (im[t,x] and ia[t,x]) that are dependent on time and distance. I’m using my own anisotropic mesh (thanks to @TimLaska) that is aimed to represent an interface ...
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How to reduce the number of triangles in a mesh? [duplicate]
I am trying to turn a Graphics3D object (the Stanford Bunny) into a mesh. The result from using DiscretizeGraphics has too many ...
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Create a voxelized mesh from an STL mesh file
I would like to create a cubic or 3d grid mesh with a constant size for a surface mesh that represents a hollow torus saved in an STL file. mesh
I am import the vertex using:
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Using ParametricNDSolveValue with parameter-dependent region to solve for a flow field around an airfoil via FEM
I am looking for a way to have a parametric solution to a potential flow problem using FEM around an airfoil (as an initial bc for the inviscid bc problem), where the parameter to be varied has direct ...
