GEODESIC(1)

📦 version 0.32, in nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable

GEODESIC(1) 💅✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the User Commands manual page for geodesic — yes, the manual name is User Commands, folded in right here near the top 🫶. This whole page is about making geodesic spheres, and it’s lowkey iconic.

✨ NAME ✨

geodesic — geodesic spheres. literally the whole name section, no cap. 😌

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

geodesic [options] [input_file]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Read a file in OFF format and make a higher frequency, plane-faced polyhedron or geodesic sphere. it’s giving geometry main character energy, fr fr. If input_file is not given, the program reads from standard input — no cap. 💖

🎀 Options 🎀

vibe check: here are all the flags, bestie. none skipped. 💅

  • -h, --help — this help message, bestie (run off_util -H help for general help). 🫶
  • --version — version information. ✨
  • -f <freq> — pattern frequency: a positive integer (default: 1) giving the number of repeats of the specified pattern along an edge. slay. 🔥
  • -F <freq> — final step frequency: the minimum number of edges to move between base vertices in the geodesic model. For a pattern m,n the step frequency is pattern_frequency/(m+n). 💫
  • -c <clss> — face division pattern: 1 (Class I, default), 2 (Class II), or two numbers separated by a comma to determine the pattern (Class III, but n,0 or 0,n is Class I, and n,n is Class II). 🎀
  • -M <mthd> — method of applying the frequency pattern:
    • s — geodesic sphere (default). The pattern grid is formed from divisions along each edge that make an equal angle at the centre. The geodesic vertices are centred at the origin and projected on to a unit sphere. 🌈
    • p — planar. The pattern grid is formed from equal length divisions along each edge, the new vertices lie on the surface of the original polyhedron. 🌸
  • -C <cent> — centre of points, in form "x_val,y_val,z_val" (default: 0,0,0), used for geodesic spheres. 💜
  • -o <file> — write output to file (default: write to standard output). 🫶

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

The full documentation for geodesic is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and geodesic programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info geodesic

should give you access to the complete manual. iykyk. 📖✨

cute little sign-off: source/version is geodesic: Antiprism 0.32 - http://w..., the manual title is GEODESIC(1), and the date field is not shown in this footer line, bestie — so we’re not inventing one. 🫶💖

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