Polyhedrons

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The specification consists of a space-delimited series of polyhedral recipes. Each recipe looks like:

[op][op] ... [op][base] no spaces, just a string of characters

where [base] is one of

• T - tetrahedron
• C - cube
• O - octahedron
• I - icosahedron
• D - dodecahedron
• PN - N-sided prism
• AN - N-sided anti-prism
• YN - N-sided pyramid

and op is one of

• kN - kisN if no N then general kis
• a - ambo
• g - gyro
• d - dual
• r - reflect
• e - explode (equiv. to aa)
• b - bevel (equiv. to ta)
• o - ortho (equiv. to jj)
• m - meta (equiv. to k3j)
• tN - truncate (equiv. to dkNd)
• j - join (equiv. to dad)
• s - snub (equiv. to dgd)
• p - propellor

also, some newer, experimental operators

• l - stellation
• nN - insetN
• xN - extrudeN
• z - triangulate

there are also two "refinement" operators for the canonicalization of the polyhedral shape, mainly intended for making the more traditional, convex polyhedra more symmetric

• KN - quicK and dirty canonicalization, it can blow up, iteratively refines shape N times.
• CN - proper Canonicalization, intensive, slow convergence, iteratively refines shape N times.
• AN - convex spherical Adjustment. Iterates N times.

these can blow up the geometry of the weirder polyhedra, which can be interesting too!