dxfsphere1

Usage

Overview

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.