Help for a "Surface and Flux integrals" program

[salvomic]

(11-04-2017 10:40 AM)AlexFekken Wrote:  

(11-04-2017 10:08 AM)salvomic Wrote:  Also we could return a list with the I1,I2,I3 values (items of column vector of N(P), normal vector of the surface)...

Not sure what you expect from that but keep in mind that while I is a normal vector in the sense that it is orthogonal to the surface, it is not normalised to length 1 (unlike n). The relation between the differentials is

\[\mathbf{I} du dv = \mathbf{n} dS \]

and in this expression only n is normalised. This means that the length of I depends on the chosen parametrisation in terms of (u, v), e.g. you can scale (u,v) up or down and I will change accordingly.

In short: if you want to return a normal vector that is also normalised (length 1) then you must divide I by its l2 norm.

ok, I understand, it's so, indeed. Maybe return the I parts isn't so important if we don't give a way to handle the different parametrisation separately...

Please, Alex, read also my previous post, in the EDIT part, thank you.