[Gmsh] Surface mesh creation

[Christophe Geuzaine]

Mark van Doesburg wrote:
> Hello Timm,
> 
> I don't know  how to do this using gmsh, but you might want to take a
> look at www.cgal.org. They have a surface mesher for implicit surfaces
> available (chapter 35 in the manual). Onve you have this surface mesh,
> it should be pretty straight forward to generate a .geo file for it to
> generate a volume mesh using gmsh.

Agreed with Mark: there's nothing in Gmsh at the moment to do this. Once 
you have a surface mesh just import it in one of the supported formats 
to perform the volume mesh generation (cf. demos/sphere-discrete.geo)


> 
> regards,
> 
> Mark van Doesburg.
> 
> 
> Timm Krüger <t.krueger at mpie.de> wrote:
> 
> 	Hello,
> 
> 	at first: Gmsh is a very nice tool, and I like it much.
> 	But there is a question for which I haven't found an answer yet:
> 	I want to create a 2D surface mesh (triangles only) of a closed, parameterized shape. The shape is known analytically in the form z (x, y), actually it is the membrane shape of a red blood cell. How can I do this using Gmsh?
> 
> 	Thank you very much and best regards,
> 	Timm Krüger
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