[Gmsh] bug in attractor field

[Christophe Geuzaine]

Louis Gagnon wrote:
> Dear developers,
> 
> this might already be know.
> 
> An attractor field will not accept Plane Surface in FacesList (Ruled
> Surfaces work fine.)  It will return the "should never interpolate plane
> surface in InterpolateSurface()" error. (In 2.3.0 it returned a weird
> mesh and now in 2.3.1 it seems to refuse to apply the field to the
> problematic surface).

Right, this is "normal". Attractor on surfaces are really just a hack at 
the moment--we would need to actually generate some kind of mesh on the 
surface first. It's on our TODO list.

As the doc says: "Warning: might give strange results for complex 
surfaces" ;-)


> 
> Regards,
> 
> -Louis
> 
> 
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