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| − | Unstructured cells provide detailed structural information about cells. Unstructured cells are particularly useful for high-resolution | + | Unstructured cells provide detailed structural information about cells. Unstructured cells are particularly useful for high-resolution grid [[GENIE:Gridspec:Diagrams:Tile|tiles]] that must cover detailed topography -- for instance numerically generated "unstructured triangular" [[GENIE:Gridspec:Diagrams:Discretisation|discretisations]]. Vertices are specified using an appropriate point type; currently only a geo-referenced type is available consisting of geographic longitude and latitude coordinates. |
''Since vertices are likely to be shared between cells, it may be more appropriate to associate vertices with a tile instead of a cell, and reference the vertices from cells instead (a similar thing is done for edges). This will avoid storing duplicate vertex data.'' | ''Since vertices are likely to be shared between cells, it may be more appropriate to associate vertices with a tile instead of a cell, and reference the vertices from cells instead (a similar thing is done for edges). This will avoid storing duplicate vertex data.'' | ||
[[Image:unstructuredcell_type.png|center]] | [[Image:unstructuredcell_type.png|center]] | ||
Revision as of 16:47, 21 February 2007
Unstructured cells provide detailed structural information about cells. Unstructured cells are particularly useful for high-resolution grid tiles that must cover detailed topography -- for instance numerically generated "unstructured triangular" discretisations. Vertices are specified using an appropriate point type; currently only a geo-referenced type is available consisting of geographic longitude and latitude coordinates.
Since vertices are likely to be shared between cells, it may be more appropriate to associate vertices with a tile instead of a cell, and reference the vertices from cells instead (a similar thing is done for edges). This will avoid storing duplicate vertex data.
