happrox(1)

happrox1

Returns a simplified triangulation of a set of points using algorithm iii of garland and heckbert (1995).

Usage

happrox [OPTIONS] < [{input.pgm | input}] > output.gts

Overview

This manual page documents briefly the happrox command.

Options

This program follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.

-n N, --number=N

Stop the refinement process if the number of vertices is larger than N.

-c C, --cost=C

Stop the refinement process if the cost of insertion of a vertex is smaller than C.

-f, --flat

Input is a flat file with three x,y,z columns (default is PGM file).

-r Z, --relative=Z

Use relative height cost for all heights larger than Z.

-k, --keep

Keep enclosing triangle.

-C, --closed

Close the surface.

-l, --log

Log evolution of cost.

-v, --verbose

Display surface statistics.

-h, --help

Display the help and exit.

Releases

10 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 5.0–6.0
  2. 7–Arch

Author

happrox was written by Stephane Popinet <[email protected]>.

This manual page was written by Ruben Molina <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

From gts 0.7.6.121130-5 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.