LAT_GRID(1)

💖 NAME 💖

lat_grid — lattices and grids with integer coordinates. (Yes bestie, LAT_GRID(1) is the manual page and lat_grid is the little icon doing the actual work. 💅)

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

lat_grid [options] [lat_type [outer_width [inner_width]]]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so lat_grid makes a lattice or grid with integer coordinates, and the default lattice type is sc. The lattice type is followed by its name and then valid strut arguments — those are squares of length, and the first one is the square of the radius of balls packed at the vertex positions. 🫶

Lattice types, in all their iconic glory:

• sc — Simple Cubic (1, 2, 3)
• fcc — Face Centred Cubic (2, 4, 6, 12)
• bcc — Body Centred Cubic (3, 4, 8)
• hcp — Hexagonal Close Packing (18)
• rh_dodec — Rhombic Dodecahedra (3, 8) — the source has a stray \ right after (3, 8), so I’m clocking it and moving on, no cap 😭
• cubo_oct — Cuboctahedron / Octahedron (2)
• tr_oct — Truncated Octahedron (2)
• tr_tet_tet — Truncated Tetrahedron / Tetrahedron (2)
• tr_tet_tr_oct_cubo — Truncated Tetrahedron / Truncated Octahedron / Cuboctahedron (4)
• diamond — Diamond (3)
• hcp_diamond — HCP Diamond (27)
• k_4 — K_4 Crystal (2)

Inner and outer widths are the sizes of the inner and outer containers. For cubes, these are the length of a side; for spheres, these are the squares of the radii. 🦋

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -h,--help — this help message (run off_util -H help for general help)
• --version — version information
• -C <cent> — centre of lattice, in form "x_val,y_val,z_val"
• -c <type> — container: c - cube (default), s - sphere
• -s <len2> — create struts, the value is the square of the strut length
• -o <file> — write output to file (default: write to standard output)

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

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

info lat_grid

should give you access to the complete manual. ✨

💖 That’s the whole page, bestie! Footer tea: this is lat_grid from Antiprism 0.32 — source URL http://w... — and the footer didn’t print an actual date, so I’m not inventing one. Periodt. 🎀