[yt-users] A basic question how yt treat the intersect cell.

[Jun-Hwan Choi]

Hi all,

I have one conceptual question.
When you make a profile, what happen one grid cell (finest cell) is 
bigger than one bin?
Does yt interpolate the physical value (mass, density, velocity ...) and 
assign the appropriate value to the bins which the cell intersects?
The very similar question is what happen one grid cell (finest) 
intersects with object boundary.
For example, I define sphere and try to measure total mass of sphere.
Does yt interpolate the mass of cell that intersects with the object's 
boundary and compute the partial mass of cell to assign to total mass of 
the sphere?
If yt interpolate the cell, does yt use a particular weight?
This issue may be important, when one need to compute fine physical 
quantities.

Thanks in advance,
Junhwan

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Jun-Hwan Choi, Ph.D.
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky
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Email: jhchoi at pa.uky.edu   URL: http://www.pa.uky.edu/~jhchoi
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