DIME(1)

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💖 DIME(1) — the dxfsphere glow-up 💖

okay so bestie, this is the General Commands Manual page for DIME(1) — aka the whole dxfsphere situation. Let's get into it, no cap. ✨

✨ 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. Bestie, the tea is: this page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program literally does not have a manual page. 😭 Instead, it has documentation in the GNU Info format; see below. iykyk.

dxfsphere is a program that generates a triangle mesh approximating a sphere by recursive subdivision. The first approximation is a 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. Periodt. 👑

🎀 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 an icosahedron instead of an octahedron.
  • -o — outfile (default is stdout). 🫶
  • -h — Show useage. (yes, the page spells it useage, we love her 💀)

🔍 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). 🫶

and that's the whole vibe check, bestie — this page is from September 21, 2003, it's the DIME(1) page, and it ate. go make some spheres. 💖✨🎀

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