MeshCellShapeFunction
is an option and annotation for MeshRegion , BoundaryMeshRegion , and related functions that specifies functions to use to generate primitives for rendering mesh cells.
Details
- The following settings can be used:
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Automatic the default shape functionNone do not render mesh cellsfunc a general shape function{cellspec1->func1,…} use funci for mesh cell cellspeci
- Mesh cells with no explicit mesh cell shape function are taken to use the automatic shape.
- The wrapper Annotation [cellspec,MeshCellShapeFunctionfunc] can be used when creating mesh regions in functions such as MeshRegion , BoundaryMeshRegion , etc.
- The cell specification cellspec follows the standard form described for MeshRegion and BoundaryMeshRegion .
- A general shape function func specifies that the cell of the form h[{i1,…,in}] should be rendered with the primitive provided by func[coords,index,cell], where coords are coordinates of points with index i1,…,in, and index is the mesh cell index.
Examples
open allclose allBasic Examples (2)
Specify a mesh cell function for all zero-dimensional cells:
Specify a mesh cell function for all 1D cells:
Scope (9)
MeshCellShapeFunction works with regions in 0D:
Regions in 1D:
Regions in 2D:
Regions in 3D:
Specify mesh cell functions for all 1D cells and all 0D cells:
Individual cells can be drawn using their cell index:
Or by the cell itself:
Draw all cells of a given dimension:
Specify a list of cell indices to style:
Style cells whose indices match a pattern:
Related Guides
History
Text
Wolfram Research (2015), MeshCellShapeFunction, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/MeshCellShapeFunction.html.
CMS
Wolfram Language. 2015. "MeshCellShapeFunction." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/MeshCellShapeFunction.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (2015). MeshCellShapeFunction. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/MeshCellShapeFunction.html
BibTeX
@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_meshcellshapefunction, author="Wolfram Research", title="{MeshCellShapeFunction}", year="2015", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/MeshCellShapeFunction.html}", note=[Accessed: 27-April-2025 ]}
BibLaTeX
@online{reference.wolfram_2025_meshcellshapefunction, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={MeshCellShapeFunction}, year={2015}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/MeshCellShapeFunction.html}, note=[Accessed: 27-April-2025 ]}