DIME(1)
NAME
dxfsphere - generate a triangle mesh approximating a sphere by recursive subdivision in .dxf format using libdime
SYNOPSIS
dxfsphere [-c] [-t] [-i] [-o outfile] level
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the dxfsphere command. This manual
page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the
original program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has documentation in the GNU Info format; see below.
- dxfsphere is a program that
- generate a triangle mesh approximating a sphere by
recursive subdivision. First approximation is an platonic
solid; each level of refinement increases the number of
triangles by a factor of 4. - Level 3 (128 triangles for an octahedron) is a good tradeoff if
gouraud shading is used to render the database.
OPTIONS
- level level is an integer >= 1 setting the recursion level (default
- 1).
- -c,
- causes triangles to be generated with vertices in counterclock
- wise
- order as viewed from the outside in a RHS coordinate system.
The default is clockwise order. - -t, starts with a tetrahedron instead of an octahedron
- -i, starts with a icosahedron instead of an octahedron
- -o, outfile (default is stdout)
- -h, Show useage.
SEE ALSO
files in: /usr/share/doc/libdime/, /usr/share/doc/libdime-dev/.
The programs are documented fully by http://www.coin3d.org/lib/dime/,
available via the Internet.
AUTHOR
- This manual page was written by A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by
others).