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- POLYMERGE(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual POLYMERGE(1)
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- NAME
- polymerge - merge coincident vertices, collinear edges,
- coplanar faces in an OOGL OFF object
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- SYNOPSIS
- polymerge [-v vertex_thresh] [-e edge_thresh] [-f
- face_thresh] [-V] [-E] [-F] [-d] [-b] [inputfile.off]
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- DESCRIPTION
- Polymerge eliminates redundancies from polyhedral objects in
- OOGL's OFF format, and writes another OFF object to its
- standard output. (Optionally it can produce instead an
- input file for Brakke's Evolver.) Specifically, it combines
- nearly-coincident vertices, nearly-collinear edges, and
- nearly-coplanar faces. Vertices which aren't used on any
- face are deleted, as are faces with less than three ver-
- tices. Thresholds for approximate equality are adjustable
- from the command line. Options are:
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- -v vertex_thresh
- Merge vertices when they're closer than vertex_thresh
- apart; the default is .00001.
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- -V Don't attempt to merge vertices.
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- -e edge_thresh
- Merge edges where |sin(vertex_angle)| < edge_thresh;
- the default is When edges are merged, the corresponding
- vertex is removed.
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- -E Don't attempt to merge edges. (4OFF edges are never
- merged.)
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- -f face_thresh
- Merge faces sharing an edge where the faces are nearly
- coplanar: when |sin(angle_between_face_normal_vectors)|
- < face_thresh. The default is .03, or about two
- degrees. Note that merging can create faces which are
- concave polygons.
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- -F Don't attempt to merge faces. (4OFF faces are never
- merged.)
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- -b Produce an output file in .fe format for Brakke's Sur-
- face Evolver, instead of a new OFF file.
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- -d Include debugging information as comments in the new
- OFF object. The comments indicate which vertices and
- faces in the original object correspond to which in the
- new one. Messages include:
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- # Vtx nnn->mmm
- Merged vertices nnn and mmm (both indices in the origi-
- nal object).
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- # Merged face nnn into mmm (vertices vvv www) n1.n2 s
- Faces nnn and mmm in the original object were merged;
- their common edge joined original vertices vvv and www.
- The cosine of the angle between the face normals was s.
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- vertex coordinates # newvertno [order] # oldvertno
- Each vertex written appears with its new index, its
- order (number of edges touching that vertex), and its
- old index (index of a corresponding vertex in the ori-
- ginal object).
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- face description # oldvertno ...
- For each new face, with N vertices after reduction, the
- comment indicates N corresponding vertices in the ori-
- ginal object.
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- AUTHOR
- Stuart Levy, Geometry Center, University of Minnesota
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- SEE ALSO
- anytooff(1), offconsol(1)
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- BUGS
- Coplanar faces are merged even if they were assigned dif-
- ferent colors. Should be able to handle binary OFF objects,
- but this hasn't been tested.
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