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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)