SYNOPSIS

geodesic [-display host:display.screen] [-visual visual] [-window] [-root] [-mode mode] [-no-wander] [-no-spin] [-fps] [-delay number] [-speed number] [-count number]

DESCRIPTION

Animates a mesh geodesic sphere of increasing and decreasing complexity. A geodesic sphere is an icosohedron whose equilateral faces are sub-divided into non-equilateral triangles to more closely approximate a sphere.

The animation shows the equilateral triangles subdivided into four coplanar equilateral triangles; and then inflated outward, causing the sub-triangles to no longer be equilateral, but to more closely approximate the surface of a sphere.

OPTIONS

-visual visual

Specify which visual to use. Legal values are the name of a visual class, or the id number (decimal or hex) of a specific visual.

-window

Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default.

-root

Draw on the root window.

-mode mesh | solid | stellated | stellated2 | wire

Face/edge display style. Default mesh.

-wander | -no-wander

Whether the object should wander around the screen.

-spin | -no-spin

Whether the object should spin.

-fps | -no-fps

Whether to show a frames-per-second display at the bottom of the screen.

-delay number

Per-frame delay, in microseconds. Default: 30000 (0.03 seconds).

-speed number

Animation speed. 2.0 means twice as fast, 0.5 means half as fast.

-count number

Depth (frequency) of the geodesic sphere. Default: 4.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2013 by Jamie Zawinski. Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. No representations are made about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.

AUTHOR

Jamie Zawinski.