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First Gmsh Workshop

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The First Gmsh Workshop took place in Braives, on September 15-16, 2011

Programme

Workshop programme

Thursday September 15

Friday September 16

Afternoon roundtable topics and ideas for future developments:

  • Interface
    • switch to single window GUI, with lateral sidebar like firefox or acrobat... Switch to Qt? Many want a sexier interface ;-) done in r13720 (yes! finally the much hated menu window is gone ;-)
    • multiple instances when opening files from CL ("gmsh file.geo ; gmsh file2.geo") -> name of the model in the menu window? done in r13720
    • abstract GUI so we can automate some of its creation (for new options) done in r13720 : we can now add new options through onelab (some work to be done on this -- need ideas)
    • have an "expert" GUI for the full list of options (cf. about:config in firefox) done in r14606
    • try to reduce the levels in the Geometry/Mesh/Solve/Post menus to 2 (two), e.g. "Add->New Planar Surface" sorta solved; needs consensus on what to do
    • user-defined buttons linking to scripts done
    • add more doc in the GUI (popups, help, if possible automatically) partially solved with new Help->Current Options
    • integrate message output it in the main window done cf. r9960
    • favorite buttons with last 10 commands? not really necessary anymore since options can be interfaced in the tree; should add something like .gmsh-favorites?
    • show only options relevant to the current mode? not really necessary anymore with user-definable GUI
    • think about the link with ONELAB solver interface done : all solver interfaces are now based on Onelab!
    • need to make new features section on web site/wiki more prominent done in wiki + new tutorials t10.geo - t13.geo
    • Axes: better chose the edges on which to put the tics
    • merge message output with command line prompt (python? .geo ? cf. gmsh_server)
    • make it easier to change options for several views at once (cf. link view, but by selecting several views in the list)
    • appear in different places ("Visibility"). Some find this confusing.
    • Axes should scale the scale independently of the axis, i.e., we should not scale the coordinates on the axes when we apply a transformation which is just for viewing
    • set min/max tic independently of their position on the axis
  • Infrastructure
    • mailing list for developers cf. http://onelab.info/mailman/listinfo/gmsh-dev gmsh-dev@onelab.info
    • Benchmarks: ctest, ... ctest is there: need to add more tests!
    • Distribute Python and doc python; "pyinstaller" ?... make a release with python ENABLE_BUILD_DYNAMIC and ENABLE_WRAP_PYTHON
    • Doc API !
    • have 2 layers of bindings: user (set/get only with "id" GEntity interface) and developer (access to pointers)
  • Geometry
    • Nonlinear transform on mesh+geom (coord change for visu only)
    • Force same visa transform for geo/mesh/post
  • Mesh
    • write msh: try to get consensus on MSH3 (main feature: no duplication of elements -> physical lists) see bug #94 (closed)
    • allow no renumbering of mesh export will be done in MSH3
    • when creating compounds, make old entities invisible maybe not a good idea, as compounds are not visualizable at the moment until they're meshed. As an alternative, you can use the Hide command: see t12.geo fixed by r11058
    • make accessible in GUI Gaetan's levelset stuff Plugin(CutMesh)
    • Clipping add another option cap elements -- see bug #29
    • change status of control points so they can be made invisible
  • Solver
    • Merge GetDP and GMSH ;-) can be done with onelab (cf. iPad project)
    • dofManager: too slow Serialize like in GetDP after pre-processing; cf. Nicolas' work.
    • DG multi-physic: different closures for different conservation laws
    • Rewrite LinearSystem -> abstract matrix/vector classes like in GetDP
  • Post-processing
    • Pipeline of plugins/options, re-usable (script-foo) done using onelab string with kind "macros"
    • Load options multi-fields: reload specific options for each field
    • Movies: link with ffmpeg?
    • MathEval for vector Fields and complex numbers: see bug #136
    • restore dynamically loadable plugins
    • classify/sort the plugins by category
    • Plugin that allows to compute a volume of a given meshed region (already possible if you have a .pos but, directly from the mesh)
    • show relevant plugins according to context

Please file the most relevant issues in the bug tracking system

Group photo