Section: User Commands (1)Updated: October 12, 2003Local indexUp
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).