Man1 - happrox.1

happrox - returns a simplified triangulation of a set of points using algorithm III of Garland and Heckbert (1995).

happrox [ OPTIONS ] < [ input.pgm/|/input ] > output.gts

This manual page documents briefly the happrox command.

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

-n */N, /–number=*/N/

Stop the refinement process if the number of vertices is larger than N.

-c */C, /–cost=*/C/

Stop the refinement process if the cost of insertion of a vertex is smaller than C.

-f, –flat

Input is a flat file with three x,y,z columns (default is PGM file).

-r */Z, /–relative=*/Z/

Use relative height cost for all heights larger than Z.

-k, –keep

Keep enclosing triangle.

-C, –closed

Close the surface.

-l, –log

Log evolution of cost.

-v, –verbose

Display surface statistics.

-h, –help

Display the help and exit.

happrox was written by Stephane Popinet <popinet@users.sourceforge.net>.

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