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SNAPPEA(1) General Commands Manual SNAPPEA(1)

NAME

snappea - for creating and studying hyperbolic 3-manifolds

SYNOPSIS

snappea
snappea-console

DESCRIPTION

SnapPea 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.

Running snappea will invoke the GUI. Running snappea-console will invoke a Python console from which low-level operations can be performed.

Note that the SnapPea Python bindings require Python 2.1, since SnapPea does not yet support Python 2.2 or higher.

SEE ALSO

The original documentation from the program author is available in /usr/share/doc/snappea/. See http://www.geometrygames.org/SnapPea/ for further information.

AUTHOR

SnapPea was written by Jeff Weeks <weeks@geometrygames.org>, with Python assistance from Nathan Dunfield.
This manual page was written by Ben Burton <bab@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

October 12, 2003