3DLDF User and Reference Manual

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This is the 3DLDF User and Reference Manual, edition 1.1.5.1 for 3DLDF 1.1.5.1.
This manual was last updated on 16 January 2004.
3DLDF is a GNU package for three-dimensional drawing with MetaPost output. The author is Laurence D. Finston.

Copyright © 2003, 2004 , 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 The Free Software Foundation

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled “GNU Free Documentation License”.

Please note that the figures cannot be shown in the Info output format.

Introduction

About This Manual

Caveats

Points

Transforms

Drawing and Labeling Points

Paths

Plane Figures

Solid Figures

Polyhedron

Pictures

Projections

Installing and Running 3DLDF

Installing 3DLDF

Running 3DLDF

Converting EPS Files

System Information

Color Reference

Input and Output

Shape Reference

Transform Reference

Label Reference

Picture Reference

Outputting

Namespaces

Point Reference

Focus Reference

Line Reference

Plane Reference

Path Reference

Polygon Reference

Regular Polygon Reference

Rectangle Reference

Regular Closed Plane Curve Reference

Ellipse Reference

Circle Reference

Pattern Reference

Roulettes and Involutes

Solid Reference

Returning Elements and Information

Faced Solid Reference

Cuboid Reference

Polyhedron Reference

Regular Platonic Polyhedra

Tetrahedron

Dodecahedron

Icosahedron

Semi-Regular Archimedean Polyhedra

Truncated Octahedron

Utility Functions

Future Plans

Changes