POLYGON(1)

🌈 POLYGON(1) — User Commands 🌈

okay so this is the manual page for polygon, bestie, and it is literally all about making polyhedra out of polygons. No cap, the group-chat summary is right here. 🦋

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💖 NAME 💖

polygon — polygon based polyhedra

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

polygon [options] type num_sides

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Make polyhedra based on polygons. The polyhedron type and subtype may be given by (partial) name or number. Obsessed with the flexibility, honestly. 💅

Here is the type menu, and yes we are listing every single one:

• 1. prism — (angle: polygons twist, forming an antiprism)
  • subtypes:
    • 1. antiprism — from triangulating side faces
    • 2. trapezohedron — with this antiprism-ised belt
    • 3. crown — (-A integer to specify a second polygon step)
• 2. antiprism — (angle: polygons twist)
  • subtypes:
    • 1. trapezohedron — with this antiprism belt
    • 2. antihermaphrodite — with this antiprism base
    • 3. scalenohedron — (-L for apex height)
    • 4. subdivided_scalenohedron — (-L for apex height)
    • 5. crown — (-A integer to specify a second polygon step)
• 3. pyramid — (angle: base separates, polygons twist to antihermaphrodite)
  • subtypes:
    • 1. antihermaphrodite — with this antiprism base
    • 2. elongated — (-L for prism height)
    • 3. gyroelongated — (-L for antiprism height)
• 4. dipyramid — (angle: base separates, polygons twist to trapezohedron)
  • subtypes:
    • 1. trapezohedron — with this pyramid apex
    • 2. elongated — (-L for prism height)
    • 3. gyroelongated — (-L for antiprism height)
    • 4. dipyramid_scalenohedron — (-R for alternate vertex radius)
• 5. cupola
  • subtypes:
    • 1. elongated — (-L for prism height)
    • 2. gyroelongated — (-L for antiprism height)
    • 3. cupoloid
• 6. orthobicupola
  • subtypes:
    • 1. elongated — (-L for prism height)
    • 2. gyroelongated — (-L for antiprism height)
• 7. gyrobicupola
  • subtypes:
    • 1. elongated — (-L for prism height)
    • 2. gyroelongated — (-L for antiprism height)
• 8. snub-antiprism
  • subtypes:
    • 1. inverted — triangle band inverted
• 9. dihedron
  • subtypes:
    • 1. polygon
• 10. crown polyhedron — (either -A integer to specify a second polygon step, or -a angle to specify a twist)

num_sides is a number (N) optionally followed by / and a second number (N/D). N is the number of vertices spaced equally on a circle, and each vertex is joined to the Dth (default: 1) vertex moving around the circle. That’s the whole geometry tea. 🍓

🛠️ Options 🛠️

• -h,--help — this help message (run off_util -H help for general help)
• --version — version information
• -s <subt> — a number or name (see type list above) indicting — yes, that’s the original spelling, bestie — a subtype or modification of a polyhedron
• -e <len> — length of polygon edges (default: 1)
• -E <len> — length of non-polygon edges (default: calculate from -l)
• -r <rad> — circumradius of polygon (default: calculate from -e)
• -R <rad> — a second radius value
• -l <hgt> — height of upper vertices above base polygon (default: circumradius of polygon)
• -L <hgt> — a second height or length value
• -a <ang> — twist angle (degrees)
• -A <ang> — a second twist angle (degrees)
• -o <file> — write output to file (default: write to standard output)

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

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

info polygon

should give you access to the complete manual. Iconic, fr fr. 👑

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💖 Cute sign-off time: this page is from polygon in Antiprism 0.32, and the footer’s URL is literally cut off as http://ww...; no date was printed, so that’s all the footer tea we have. Bye bestie! 🎀