NAME¶

shapes - generates various shapes for Gerris.

SYNOPSIS¶

shapes [OPTIONS]SHAPE

SHAPE can be one of: ellipse, star, 4ellipses, square, almgren, channel, half-cylinder, rayleigh-taylor, FILE.

DESCRIPTION¶

This manual page documents briefly the shapes command.

OPTIONS¶

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.

-z, --zextrude

Shape file contains z coordinate.

-n N, --number=N

Set number of points for polar surfaces (default is 100).

-o, --open

Generate open surfaces.

-d R, --dr=R

Set inner radius for star to R (default is 0.15).

-r R, --ratio=R

Ratio x/y of the ellipse (default is 1).

-v, --url=URL

Display surface statistics.

-h, --help

Display the help and exit.

AUTHOR¶

shapes was written by Stephane Popinet <s.popinet@niwa.co.nz>.

This manual page was written by Ruben Molina <rmolina@udea.edu.co>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).