man dxfsphere (Commandes) - generate a triangle mesh approximating a sphere by recursive subdivision in .dxf format using libdime
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 counterclockwise 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).