Changeset 356

Timestamp:

03/27/08 18:17:13 (8 months ago)

Author:

powell

Message:

Updates for version 0.3.0.

Files:

• trunk/matml/src/ternary/ternary.tex.in (modified) (6 diffs)

trunk/matml/src/ternary/ternary.tex.in

@@ -32 +32 @@
   triangles---which will clearly show the one- and two-phase regions, complete
   with two-phase tie lines.
+\item Added visualization and convex hull calculation for multiple phases with
+  separate free energy functions, {\em e.g.} solid and liquid.
 \end{itemize}
 
@@ -37 +39 @@
 features are planned:
 \begin{itemize}
-\item Visualize multiple free energy functions simultaneously.
 \item Refine the edges of the binodal region calculation using {\tt
     qh\_addpoint}.
@@ -49 +50 @@
   \item It's probably faster to inline or vectorize the free energy function.
   \end{itemize}
-  Then again, the slowest part of the calculation is probably qhull, which is
-  presumably already quite thoroughly optimized.
+  Then again, the slowest part of the calculation will likely be qhull, which
+  is already quite thoroughly optimized.
 \end{itemize}
 
@@ -56 +57 @@
 
 The file {\tt ternary.c} (documentation in appendix \ref{file_ternary.c})
-contains {\tt main()}, which creates a triangular array of points and set of
-triangles connecting them.  It calls {\tt free\_energy()} in {\tt freenergy.c}
-(appendix \ref{file_freenergy.c}) to calculate the free energy function on
-those triangles.  It then displays the free energy using the functions in {\tt
-  geomview.c} (appendix \ref{file_geomview.c}), which forks a Geomview process
-and controls it.
+contains {\tt main()}, which calls functions in {\tt book.c} (appendix
+\ref{file_book.c}) to create a triangular array of points and set of triangles
+connecting them.  It calls {\tt free\_energy()} in {\tt freenergy.c} (appendix
+\ref{file_freenergy.c}) to calculate the free energy function on those
+triangles.  It then displays the free energy using the functions in {\tt
+  geomview.c} (appendix \ref{file_geomview.c}), which forks and controls a
+Geomview process.
 
 Next it uses Qhull calls in {\tt qhull.c} (appendix \ref{file_qhull.c}) to
@@ -69 +71 @@
 facets using transparent triangles with black edges, which clearly show the tie
 lines in the two-phase regions.
+
+For more than one free energy function, it creates a double-size array with two
+sets of points, and two sets of triangle indices connecting them.  The rest of
+this procedure is pretty much the same.
 
 \section{Version History}
@@ -84 +90 @@
 free energy function.
 
+\subsection{{\tt Ternary} 0.3.0}
+
+This version introduced multiple free energy functions which intersect to
+produce complex multi-phase regions on the convex hull.  Internally, much of
+the code in main() moved out to a new file {\tt book.c}, which will make it a
+lot easier to wrap these functions using SIDL or SWIG.
+
 \bibliographystyle{unsrturl}
 \bibliography{ternary}