polyhedra(6) XScreenSaver manual polyhedra(6) NAME polyhedra - draws the 80 uniform polyhedra and their duals SYNOPSIS SYNOPSIS polyhedra [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--window] [--root] [--window-id number] [--delay number] [--speed float] [--duration seconds] [--no-wander] [--spin XYZ] [--wireframe] [--no-titles] [--which name] [--wireframe] [--fps] DESCRIPTION This program renders 160 different 3D solids, and displays some information about each. A new solid is chosen every few seconds. There are 75 uniform polyhedra, plus an inifinite number of prisms and an- tiprisms: * Convex Uniform Polyhedra: * Platonic solids (5) * Archimedean solids (13) * Convex prisms and antiprisms (2 infinite families) * Nonconvex Uniform Polyhedra: * Kepler-Poinsot polyhedra (4) * Nonconvex uniform polyhedra (53) * Nonconvex prisms, antiprisms, and crossed antiprisms (3 infinite families) Representative samples of the prism sets brings the total to 80 solids. Including the dual of each brings the total up to 160. (To create the "dual" of a polyhedron, faces are replaced with vertices, and vertices with faces.) 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. --window-id number Draw on the specified window. --delay number Per-frame delay, in microseconds. Default: 30000 (0.03 seconds.). --speed number Larger numbers mean run faster. Default: 1.0. --duration seconds How long before switching to a new polyhedron. Default 12 seconds. --wander | --no-wander Whether the objects should wander around the screen. --spin [XYZ] | --no-spin Which axes, if any, to spin around on. --titles | --no-titles Whether to display text describing each object. --which object-name Display only one particular object, identified by number, name, or Whthoff symbol. --wireframe | --no-wireframe Render in wireframe instead of solid. --fps Display the current frame rate, CPU load, and polygon count. KEY BINDINGS When running in a window, you can rotate the object with the mouse. Also, the following keystrokes are defined: SPC or TAB Select a new polyhedron at random. + or > Select the next-higher-numbered polyhedron. - or < Select the next-lower-numbered polyhedron. ESC or ^C Quit. ENVIRONMENT DISPLAY to get the default host and display number. XENVIRONMENT to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global re- sources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property. XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW The window ID to use with --root. SEE ALSO X(1), xscreensaver(1) COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 1991-2002 Dr. Zvi Har'El. Copyright (C) 2004 Jamie Zawinski. Permission to use, copy, modify, dis- tribute, 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 no- tice 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 Based on the program kaleido ("Kaleidoscopic construction of uniform poly- hedra"), by Dr. Zvi Har'El <rl@math.technion.ac.il> https://web.archive.org/web/20040807023850/https%3A//www.math.tech- nion.ac.il/kaleido/ Adapted for OpenGL and XScreenSaver by Jamie Zawinski, 2004. X Version 11 6.15 (30-Mar-2026) polyhedra(6)
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