Question : I couldn't find support for polyhedral cell types in OpenVKL. Is there any way I could use polyhedral cells data? Is there any plan for supporting it in future?

[kuldip-wagh]

I couldn't find support for polyhedral cell types in OpenVKL. Is there any way I could use polyhedral cells data? Is there any plan for supporting it in future?

I have cells of tetrahedron, hexahedron, wedge, pyramid, polyhedral and mixed. Hence polyhedral seems to be important to have support in openVKL. I currently using unstructured type to have support for other 4 cell types.

[gregjohnson]

Hello,
As you found, Open VKL doesn't currently support general polyhedral cell data, and at the moment we don't have plans to implement this. So at this point, you would need to represent your polyhedral cells through VKL's existing cell types -- for example by tetrahedralizing them.

Can you clarify your use case a bit more? Do you need support for general polyhedrons (i.e. arbitrary numbers of faces), or is there an additional fixed cell type that would work for your needs?

[kuldip-wagh]

Hello,

I have polyhedral cells with NF faces, NP points where N is any generic number. Hence it can be considered as general polyhedron.

[kuldip-wagh]

Hello,
Is there any news/update for polyhedral support? Any new plan?
@gregjohnson

[gregjohnson]

Hello @kuldip-wagh , unfortunately we are not able to commit to developing this feature at this time, and therefore can't provide any timeline. However, we're open to accepting pull requests if this is a feature you / others are interested in contributing.