happrox(1)

✨ happrox ✨ — the manual page, but make it make sense 💅

okay bestie, so happrox lives in the GNU Triangulated Surface utils family, and she's here to give you a simplified triangulation of a set of points. Like, you feed her a whole crowd of points and she's like "mmm, too many, let me trim this down" using algorithm III of Garland and Heckbert (1995). Yes, 1995, she's vintage, she's iconic, she's still serving. 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

happrox — returns a simplified triangulation of a set of points using algorithm III of Garland and Heckbert (1995).

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

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

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

ngl this manual page is here to document the happrox command briefly. Short and sweet, that's the vibe. 🫶

👑 OPTIONS 👑

this program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, where long options start with two dashes (--). A summary of the options is down below, and yes we're listing every single one, no skipping. 💅

• -n N, --number=N — stop the refinement process if the number of vertices is larger than N. like girl, we have enough, wrap it up. ✋
• -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 a PGM file, so heads up if you were expecting that 🫠)
• -r Z, --relative=Z — use relative height cost for all heights larger than Z.
• -k, --keep — keep the enclosing triangle. she's a keeper fr fr 🥹
• -C, --closed — close the surface.
• -l, --log — log evolution of cost. little diary moment, we love to see it 📓
• -v, --verbose — display surface statistics. numbers, numbers, numbers ✨
• -h, --help — display the help and exit. the classic escape hatch, no notes 💀

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

happrox was written by Stephane Popinet <popinet@users.sourceforge.net>. 👑

This manual page was written by Ruben Molina <rmolina@udea.edu.co>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). 🫡

okay and that's the whole page bestie, we ate and left no crumbs 🍓. this little love letter was dated June 2, 2008, and it's the happrox(1) page from the GNU Triangulated Surface utils — so when you see it floating around, you'll know exactly where it came from. bye pookie, go triangulate something 💜🧚