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

[Matthew Turk]

Hi Junhwan,

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Jun-Hwan Choi <jhchoi at pa.uky.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have one conceptual question.
> When you make a profile, what happen one grid cell (finest cell) is bigger
> than one bin?

Typically profiles do not get applied to spatial dimensions.  Profiles
bin cells based explicitly on the value of the profiled field; cells
contain one definitive field value for each field, not multiple, so it
will only get placed into a single 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?

No, cells are not interpolated.  Data objects apply a strict cutoff
based on cell-centers.  So if you have a sphere, and your sphere
intersects a cell center, that cell will be included in analysis of
that sphere.  If you want to apply additional cutoffs based on spatial
characteristics you can, but you will have to explicitly apply them.

-Matt

> 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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