Re: [Libmesh-devel] Failure on call to mesh.sub_point_locator()

[David K. <dav...@ak...>]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Roy Stogner <roy...@ic...>
wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, 11 Mar 2015, Roy Stogner wrote:
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>  My idea for a fix.  After we do the cheap bounding box test:
>> Let's also do a contains_point test?
>>
>
> Gah.  This is a stupid idea.  Do a contains_point test *with what
> point*?  If we just test the bounding box corners then we'll have the
> converse of the bug that got me screwing around with PointLocator in
> the first place.
>
> We need some kind of fully general intersection test for cartesian
> boxes with libMesh elements...
>


Hmm, OK. Do you have an idea about how to implement that? I'll be happy to
help out, if needed.

David