.TH shapes 1 "August 9, 2008" "" "User Commands"

.SH NAME
shapes \- generates various shapes for Gerris.

.SH SYNOPSIS
.B shapes
.RI [OPTIONS] SHAPE
.PP
SHAPE can be one of: ellipse, star, 4ellipses, square, almgren, channel, 
half-cylinder, rayleigh-taylor, FILE.

.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the
.B shapes
command.

.SH OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long
options starting with two dashes (`-').
A summary of options is included below.
.TP
.B \-z, \-\-zextrude
Shape file contains z coordinate.
.TP
.B \-n N, \-\-number=N
Set number of points for polar surfaces (default is 100).
.TP
.B \-o, \-\-open
Generate open surfaces.
.TP
.B \-d R, \-\-dr=R
Set inner radius for star to R (default is 0.15).
.TP
.B \-r R, \-\-ratio=R
Ratio x/y of the ellipse (default is 1).
.TP
.B \-v, \-\-url=URL
Display surface statistics.
.TP
.B \-h, \-\-help
Display the help and exit.

.SH AUTHOR
shapes was written by Stephane Popinet <s.popinet@niwa.co.nz>.
.PP
This manual page was written by Ruben Molina <rmolina@udea.edu.co>,
for the Debian project (but may be used by others).