anytooff(1gv)

💖 anytooff — bestie edition 💖

okay so welcome to anytooff(1gv), a lil filter from the Geometry Center era that has main character energy and also zero chill about turning your chaos into one (1) single polylist. it's giving glow-up arc for your geometry files. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

anytooff — a filter that takes a (set of) geomview data file(s) stuffed with any geomview primitives and squishes them into a single polylist. yes bestie, ANY. 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

anytooff [filename ...]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the vibe: anytooff reads OOGL geometry data — from the files you hand it, if you hand it any, otherwise from standard input (she's flexible, she's low maintenance 🫶) — and then she outputs the brand new polylist, in OFF format, to standard output. that's it. that's the whole job. iconic.

also, real quick, Offcombine is a synonym for anytooff. same girl, different name tag. 💜

💀 BUGS 💀

ngl, there are a couple of things you need to know, and I'm gonna be honest with you because that's what besties do:

• when she's converting a list object, anytooff uses PLCombine(3) to merge the members of the list. and PLCombine(3) has certain limitations with regard to the way it handles color and normal data — so go read its manual page for the details, fr fr. 🙈
• when vector objects get switched into polylists, they get transformed into polygons with two vertices. and here's the messy part: the faces of those polygons are the same color as the given vectors, but the edges of the polygons — which are, lowkey, their only visible aspect — have no color. 😭 so yeah. that's a whole thing.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• anytopl(3)
• geomview(1)

go read those too, iykyk 🧚

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Celeste Fowler The Geometry Center

and that's the tea, bestie 🍓 — this page came to you from the Geometry Center, dated November 2 1993, and it lives in the anytooff(1gv) section of your manual. slay, go convert something. 💖🌈⭐