Programs and Documentation

Antiprism Documentation

Programs

• antiview - interactive OFF file viewer

• off2pov - convert OFF files to POV format
• off2vrml - convert OFF files to VRML format
• off2crds - convert an OFF file to a coordinate file
• off2dae - convert an OFF file to Collada (DAE) format
• off2obj - convert an OFF file to Wavefront OBJ format
• obj2off - convert a Wavefront OBJ file to OFF format

• off_util - utilities for OFF files (orientation, merging, etc)
• off_trans - transformations (rotations, translations, etc) of OFF files
• off_color - add colours to an OFF file
• off_color_radial - radial colouring based on symmetry
• off_align - alignment of OFF files
• planar - convert overlapping coplanar polygons into non-overlapping tiles

• off_report - report global measures (e.g. area, volume, centroid), maxima, and counts
• off_query - list element data
• off_normals - utility for working with normals

• conv_hull - convex hulls (using Qhull)
• pol_recip - polar reciprocals (duals)
• canonical - canonicalize a polyhedron
• geodesic - geodesic spheres
• zono - zonohedra
• stellate - polyhedron stellations
• conway - Conway Notation transformations
• wythoff - Wythoff-style constructions
• poly_kscope - polyhedral kaleidoscope
• to_nfold - change the rotational symmetry of a polyhedron
• symmetro - polyhedra with regular polygons at symmetry axes
• kcycle - kaleidocycle rings of polyhedron
• leonardo - Leonardo da Vinci style models
• poly_form - make face-regular, equal-edge and unscrambled polyhedra
• col_util - colour utilities, plots and blending
• lat_util - lattice utilities

• off_util - output named resource models
• polygon - polygon based polyhedra (prisms, pyramids, etc)
• miller - Miller's stellations of the icosahedron
• tetra59 - 59 tetrahedra with rational dihedral angles
• iso_delta - isohedral deltahedra
• iso_kite - isohedral kiteohedra
• unitile2d - uniform tilings on a surface
• n_icons - sphericon like polyhedra
• waterman - Waterman polyhedra
• sph_rings - rings of points on a sphere
• repel - equilibrium of points repelling on a sphere
• bravais - Bravais lattices

Extra Programs

• rotegrity - make rotegrity and nexorede models
• sweep_edges - sweep edges to make a surface
• mmop_origami - multimodular origami polyhedra
• poly_weave - weave based on a polyhedron
• spidron - spidronise a polyhedron
• dome_layer - dome strut arrangements
• jitterbug - jitterbug transformation
• lat_grid - lattices and grids with integer coordinates
• string_art - string figures

General Documentation

• Antiprism Resource Files
• Importing and Exporting Models
• Named Colours in Antiprism
• Colour Maps in Antiprism
• Using Edges in Antiprism
• OFF format description

Links to Complementary Programs

• Antiprism Python (by Adrian Rositer) - polyhedron modelling scripts
• Antiprism Addons (by Roger Kaufman) - package of utilities, viewers and modelling programs
• Geomview - 3D viewing and processing
• JavaView - 3D viewing and processing (Java)
• simple-off-viewer (by Wagyx) - 3D viewer to embed in a web page
• Springie (by Tim Tyler) - 3D viewing and processing (Java)
• MeshLab - Converts from OFF to other formats, e.g. STL, 3DS, DXF
• Qhull - convex hulls and delaunay triangulation

• POV-Ray - Persistence of Vision Raytracer, using pov format
• Sketchup - CAD program, will import Collada
• VRML Viewers - Links to VRML viewers
• ImageMagick - Image processing, builds animations

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