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NAME
rbox - generate point distributions for qhull
SYNOPSIS
Command "rbox" (w/o arguments) lists the options.
DESCRIPTION
rbox generates random or regular points according to the
options given, and outputs the points to stdout. The
points are generated in a cube, unless 's' or given. The
format of the output is the following: first line contains
the dimension and a comment, second line contains the num-
ber of points, and the following lines contain the points,
one point per line. Points are represented by their coor-
dinate values.
EXAMPLES
rbox 10
10 random points in the unit cube centered at the
origin.
rbox 10 s D2
10 random points on a 2-d circle.
rbox 100 W0
100 random points on the surface of a cube.
rbox 1000 s D4
1000 random points on a 4-d sphere.
rbox c D5 O0.5
a 5-d hypercube with one corner at the origin.
rbox d D10
a 10-d diamond.
rbox x 1000 r W0
100 random points on the surface of a fixed simplex
rbox y D12
a 12-d simplex.
rbox l 10
10 random points along a spiral
rbox l 10 r
10 regular points along a spiral plus two end
points
rbox 1000 L10000 D4 s
1000 random points on the surface of a narrow lens.
rbox c G2 d G3
a cube with coordinates +2/-2 and a diamond with
coordinates +3/-3.
rbox 64 M3,4 z
a rotated, {0,1,2,3} x {0,1,2,3} x {0,1,2,3} lat-
tice (Mesh) of integer points.
rbox P0 P0 P0 P0 P0
5 copies of the origin in 3-d. Try 'rbox P0 P0 P0
P0 P0 | qhull QJ'.
r 100 s Z1 G0.1
two cospherical 100-gons plus another cospherical
point.
100 s Z1
a cone of points.
100 s Z1e-7
a narrow cone of points with many precision errors.
OPTIONS
n number of points
Dn dimension n-d (default 3-d)
Bn bounding box coordinates (default 0.5)
l spiral distribution, available only in 3-d
Ln lens distribution of radius n. May be used with
's', 'r', 'G', and 'W'.
Mn,m,r lattice (Mesh) rotated by {[n,-m,0], [m,n,0],
[0,0,r], ...}. Use 'Mm,n' for a rigid rotation
with r = sqrt(n^2+m^2). 'M1,0' is an orthogonal
lattice. For example, '27 M1,0' is {0,1,2} x
{0,1,2} x {0,1,2}.
s cospherical points randomly generated in a cube and
projected to the unit sphere
x simplicial distribution. It is fixed for option
'r'. May be used with 'W'.
y simplicial distribution plus a simplex. Both 'x'
and 'y' generate the same points.
Wn restrict points to distance n of the surface of a
sphere or a cube
c add a unit cube to the output
c Gm add a cube with all combinations of +m and -m to
the output
d add a unit diamond to the output.
d Gm add a diamond made of 0, +m and -m to the output
Pn,m,r add point [n,m,r] to the output first. Pad coordi-
nates with 0.0.
n Remove the command line from the first line of out-
put.
On offset the data by adding n to each coordinate.
t use time in seconds as the random number seed
(default is command line).
tn set the random number seed to n.
z generate integer coordinates. Use 'Bn' to change
the range. The default is 'B1e6' for six-digit
coordinates. In R^4, seven-digit coordinates will
overflow hyperplane normalization.
Zn s restrict points to a disk about the z+ axis and the
sphere (default Z1.0). Includes the opposite pole.
'Z1e-6' generates degenerate points under single
precision.
Zn Gm s
same as Zn with an empty center (default G0.5).
r s D2 generate a regular polygon
r s Z1 G0.1
generate a regular cone
BUGS
Some combinations of arguments generate odd results.
Report bugs to qhull_bug@geom.umn.edu, other correspon-
dence to qhull@geom.umn.edu
SEE ALSO
qhull(1)
AUTHOR
C. Bradford Barber
c/o The Geometry Center
400 Lind Hall
207 Church Street S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55455
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