clip(1gv)
NAME
clip - Clip an OOGL object against planes or other surfaces
SYNOPSIS
clip [-v axisx,y,z,...]
[-g value-or-point] [-l value-or-point]
[-s nstrips[,fraction]] [-e]
[-sph centerx,y,z,...] [-cyl centerx,y,z,...]
[ooglfile]
DESCRIPTION
Clip, adapted from Daeron Meyer's ginsu module, allows clipping an OOGL
object against planes, spheres, or cylinders from the UNIX command
line. Its input can come from a file or standard input; output is
written to standard output.
Options specify a function of space position; the output is the portion
of the object where the function is greater or less than some given
value, or the portion lying between two values. Alternatively, an
object can be sliced into equally-spaced strips. Objects may be of any
dimension (but see the BUGS section).
Options are:
-g value-or-point
-l value-or-point
Select the portion of the object where the function is greater
than (-g) or less than (-l) the given value. If both are
specified, the result is the portion of the object satisfying
both conditions.
If, rather than a single number, the argument to -l or -g is a
point (a series of x,y,z,... values separated by commas, with no
embedded blanks), then the clipping surface is one chosen to
pass through that point.
-v axisx,y,z,...
Specifies a direction in space. For planar clipping (the
default), it's the plane normal direction; the clipping function
is the inner product between the direction vector and the point
on the object. For cylindrical clipping, -v specifies the
direction of the cylinder's axis; the clipping function is the
distance from the axis.
-sph centerx,y,z,...
Clip against spheres centered on x,y,z,.... The clipping
function is the distance from the given center. Coordinates
must be separated by commas without intervening spaces.
-cyl centerx,y,z,...
Clip against cylinders with an axis passing through
centerx,y,z,..., with axis direction given by the -v option.
The clipping function is the distance from the axis.
-s nslices[,fraction]
Clip an object into a series of nslices ribbons spanning its
entire extent -- the range of function-values over the object.
Part of each ribbon is omitted; the fraction, default .5, sets
the width of the visible part of a ribbon compared to the ribbon
period. There are a total of (nslices+fraction-1) ribbon
periods across the object, so e.g. -s 2,.5 slices the object
into equal thirds, omitting the middle third. The output OOGL
object is a LIST of OFFs, one per ribbon.
-e Don't emit a clipped OOGL object, just print two numbers,
listing the minimum and maximum function values for the object.
If -g or -l clipping options are specified, the object is
clipped before determining the function range. If none of the
object remains, clip prints "0 0".
EXAMPLES
To extract the portion of an object lying below the x+y+z=1 plane:
clip -l 1 -v 1,1,1 file.oogl > portion.oogl
To extract the portion of an object lying in the positive octant and
below the x+y+z=1 plane, we can pipe multiple instances of clip
together to find the intersection of several half-spaces:
clip -g 0 -v 1,0,0 file.oogl | \
clip -g 0 -v 0,1,0 | \
clip -g 0 -v 0,0,1 | \
clip -l 1 -v 1,1,1 > portion.oogl
To find the region lying between two surfaces (either above one and
below the other, or below the first and above the second), say the
planes 2x + y -.5z = 1 and y + 2z = 0:
echo "{ LIST"
clip -v 2,1,-.5 -g 1 file.oogl | clip -v 0,1,2 -l 0
clip -v 2,1,-.5 -l 1 file.oogl | clip -v 0,1,2 -g 0
echo "}"
We use pipelines to compute intersections, and a LIST to form their
union.
SEE ALSO
ginsu(1)
BUGS
Uses anytooff(1) to convert input data to OFF format internally; this can lose information. The only arbitrary-dimensional form accepted at present is nOFF, not nSKEL or nMESH. However the four-dimensional 4OFF, 4QUAD, 4MESH, 4VECT, etc. formats should work. Clip really only clips edges. If a curved clipping surface cuts an edge twice, or removes only an interior portion of some polygon, clip misses it entirely. Clipping against a curved surface yields a straight edge (a chord of the ideal curved edge segment). This latter failing might be fixed someday.
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