The way I did this was to use one surface as a “source” - fire rays from this surface along the surface normal until they hit the “target” and return the distance. Then use the distances for every source node as a new field which is output. One requires ideally a source mesh with quite dense points to get a good sampling.
JB On 23/12/14 21:02, "Scott, W Alan" <[email protected]> wrote: >I have a user that asked the following question. Any ideas how to do >this? > >Thanks, > >Alan > > >Greetings, > >I need to quantify the distance between two curved and deforming surfaces >(large deformation mechanical analysis) as a function of time in batch >mode. I don't know (and don't want to know) which two node points are the >closest. Could you outline how you would code up something like this ? > >George > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Powered by www.kitware.com > >Visit other Kitware open-source projects at >http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > >Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: >http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView > >Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView > >Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: >http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview
