QMG project future plans

• As noted in the documentation, there are some obvious missing functions in QMG. For instance, there is currently no program that verifies the correctness of a brep. We hope to fill some gaps like this.
• In the QMG package there are no links between a brep and its mesh, or between a mesh and its FEM solution. The user has to remember which items are related to each other. It's not clear to me how to solve this naming problem.
• QMG does not handle Matlab windows very well. If you get in a situation with many graphics windows on the screen at once (for instance, using the `alltests' statement to run through the whole test set), QMG will often put the current graphic in the wrong window.
• Paul Chew of Cornell has a complete mesh generator for two-dimensional surfaces embedded in R^3. We plan to connect Chew's mesh generator to QMG and write a simple boundary element package that uses Chew's mesh generator.

• We would like to improve the performance of the mesh generator, both in terms of quality of the mesh and running time. We would like to investigate Delauney-based methods in this regard.
• We would like to be able to handle curved boundaries.
• We would like to be able to do adaptive remeshing in which some subregion of a larger domain gets retriangulated.
• We would like to be able to interface QMG with commercial CAD and finite element packages.

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