[Gmsh] a question about the colors in the post-processing view

[Christophe Geuzaine]

carette philippe wrote:
> Hi,
> I try the new release1.5.
> Very nice, and tx a lot for the nodes view option, in the visibility screen.
> Extrude feature works good now  (i got some double nodes, with extrude, 
> in the 1.46 release, and error with Code Aster using)
> 
> I have a question about the post-processing view :
> With a merge file, a strain tensor component, saying XX, change from 
> -100 to 100, so the zéro value is in yellow/green.
> 
> How can i viszualize the absolute value with Gmesh ?
> I didn't find in the doc. files.
> 

The implementation of tensor visualization is still very much "a work in
progress"... The easiest way to do what you want is probably to write a
small plugin that computes the values you need from the raw data. See
the Plugin/ directory in the sources for some examples.

Christophe

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Christophe A. Geuzaine
Applied and Computational Mathematics, Caltech
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