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.TH SNAPPEA 1 "October 12, 2003"
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.SH NAME
snappea \- for creating and studying hyperbolic 3-manifolds
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B snappea
.br
.B snappea-console
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBSnapPea\fP is a program for creating and studying hyperbolic
3-manifolds.  It is accessible via Python scripts as well as through a
traditional graphical user interface.
.PP
Running
.I snappea
will invoke the GUI.  Running
.I snappea-console
will invoke a Python console from which low-level operations can be
performed.
.PP
Note that the SnapPea Python bindings require Python 2.1, since SnapPea
does not yet support Python 2.2 or higher.
.SH SEE ALSO
The original documentation from the program author
is available in \fI/usr/share/doc/snappea/\fP.
See \fIhttp://www.geometrygames.org/SnapPea/\fP for further information.
.SH AUTHOR
SnapPea was written by Jeff Weeks <weeks@geometrygames.org>, with Python
assistance from Nathan Dunfield.
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This manual page was written by Ben Burton <bab@debian.org>
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).