kaleido.py - Uniform Polyhedra, ported for OFF file output (Zvi Har'El)

Usage | Examples | Notes

Usage



Usage: kaleido [options] [Symbol]

Antiprism port of Kaleido that lists Uniform information, or outputs models
Kaleidoscopic Construction of Uniform Polyhedra, $Revision: 3.27 $
Copyright © 1991-2002 Dr. Zvi Har'El <rl@math.technion.ac.il>

Symbol may be a number Meader index (e.g u75), Kaleido index (e.g k75)
Coxeter index (e.g c75), Wenninger index (e.g w75). There are 80 models
which can be generated by indexes. Or the symbol may be a Wythoff symbol
in quotes (e.g "3|2 3" , "5/3 5/2|3", "|2 2 5/3", "|2 2 9/4")
Entering a listing option with symbol 0 will list all

Options
  -h,--help this help message (run 'off_util -H help' for general help)
  --version version information
  -d <dgts> number of significant digits (default 16) or if negative
            then the number of digits after the decimal point
  -o <file> write output to file (default: write to standard output)

Scene Options
  -w <opt>  off=1, vrml=2  (default: off)
  -b <opt>  base=1, dual=2 (default: base)

Listings (use 0 for Symbol to list all)
  -l        list polyhedron names, symbols and reference figures only
  -n        list polyhedron names only
  -v        print vertex and face coordinates
  -x        print successive approximations

Examples

Make a tetrahedron

kaleido U1 | antiview

Make a 7/2 antiprism

kaleido "|2 2 7/2" | antiview

Notes

Kaleido uniform polyhedron generator (Zvi Har'El), adapted by Roger Kaufman.

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