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tetgen, tetview installed on Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Fri Oct 20 13:42:20 2006
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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 13:41:53 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
I've installed tetgen (Sun, Linux) and tetview (Linux only).
tetgen is a tetrahedral mesh generator and three dimensional
Delaunay triangulator. These meshes can be used in finite
element and finite volume simulations.
tetview is a 3d viewer for viewing meshes created by tetgen,
as well as other geometrical objects and triangular and
tetrahedral meshes in other formats.
Basic usage instructions:
add tetgen
tetgen [options] [input file] (tetgen)
tetview [input file] (tetview)
The author site at http://tetgen.berlios.de and tetgen manual at
http://web.mit.edu/tetgen_v1.4.1/tetgen-manual.pdf will guide you
through usage and demos.
Besides the ability to use these independently, I'm installing them because
tetgen is needed by some examples in the IMTEK Mathematica Supplement that
I'm planning to install shortly- this adds a variety of functionality to
Mathematica, notably in the areas of partial differential equations and
finite-element analysis.
Alex
