POLY_KSCOPE(1)

📦 version 0.32, in nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable

🦋 POLY_KSCOPE(1) — NAME 🦋

poly_kscope — polyhedral kaleidoscope. Yes bestie, that’s the whole vibe: a polyhedral kaleidoscope. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

poly_kscope [options] [input_file]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

A polyhedral kaleidoscope. Read a file in OFF format and repeat it in a symmetric arrangement like a kaleidoscope. If input_file is not given, the program reads from standard input. Slay. 🌀

🎛️ Options 🎛️

  • -h,--help — this help message (run off_util -H help for general help). The “help me help you” option, lowkey essential.
  • --version — version information. Gotta know what era of the software you’re in.
  • -s <sym> — (required) symmetry type for kaleidoscope, up to three comma separated parts: main symmetry (Schoenflies notation) or file name, subgroup (Schoenflies notation), and conjugation type (integer). Required required, not optional required. 🔥
  • -y <arg> — make a compound by aligning the component to match a subsymmetry with the kaleidoscope. Argument is either list (to print the list of the compounds to standard output) or a number from the list optionally followed by a comma and realignment (colon separated list of an integer then decimal numbers). Very “pick your fighter” energy.
  • -c <elms> — color elements with a different index number for each part. The element string can include v, e and f to color, respectively, vertices, edges and faces. Cute little element makeover. 🎀
  • -m <maps> — a comma separated list of colour maps used to transform colour indexes (default: rand), a part consisting of letters from v, e, f, selects the element types to apply the map list to (default 'vef'). The 'compound' map should give useful results. Map it out, bestie. 🌈
  • -I — ignore shared symmetries, full kaleidoscopic repetition of component.
  • -Q — print information about compound. Receipts, basically. 🧾
  • -o <file> — write output to file (default: write to standard output). Let it go to a file, or let it spill into your terminal like destiny.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

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

info poly_kscope

should give you access to the complete manual.

💖 That’s the tea from poly_kscope, Antiprism 0.32 — and the footer’s date? It didn’t show up in what I got (the http:... bit got cut off too), so I’m not inventing one. Mwah! 💖

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