AREA(nged)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so this is the BRL-CAD User Commands manual, bestie, and area is the command that calculates an approximate presented area of one region in the mged display. one region. single. no cap. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

area [tolerance]

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

So area calculates an approximate presented area of one region in the mged display. But before you get too excited, the vibe check is strict: for this command to work properly, a single BRL-CAD region must be displayed using the E command. one region only — that's the main character requirement. 👑

tolerance is the distance required between two vertices in order for them to be recognized as distinct vertices. yep, that's the threshold for "are these two points actually different, or are they giving same-point energy?" 📏✨

This calculation considers only the minimum bounding polygon of the region and ignores holes. so do not come for it expecting hole-aware area math, bestie; it is literally not doing that. 🙈

🌸 EXAMPLES 🌸

Example 1. Report the approximate presented area of a displayed region.

mged> # Displays wheel.r as the single evaluated region for use by area.
mged> E wheel.r
mged> # Calculates approximate presented area using a 0.01 local-unit vertex tolerance.
mged> area 0.01

👑 AUTHOR 👑

BRL-CAD Team. iconic. 💖

🐛 BUG REPORTS 🐛

Reports of bugs or problems should be submitted via electronic mail to devs@brlcad.org. if something is acting sus, email them, not me. 🫶

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