debian man page for dxfsphere

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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).

								September 21, 2003							   DIME(1)