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).

                                                 August 9, 2008                                        shapes(1)