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- NAME
- discrete group file formats
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- SYNOPSIS
- An ascii file representation of a discrete geometric
- group.
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- SUMMARY
- This file format applies to a wide variety of groups
- encountered in topology and geometry. At the beginning of
- the file is the string DISCGRP, in conformity with other
- OOGL file formats (see oogl(5)). The remainder of the
- file is a series of parenthesized expressions.
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- The file format is based on an expandable set of key mark-
- ers and values. A typical entry would be
- (group borromean )
- where parentheses enclose the expression. The string
- 'group' is called the key marker. The remaining text con-
- tains a value, in this case a character string which is
- the name of the group. Key markers currently recognized
- and their values include:
- group A name for this group.
- comment An arbitrary comment [maximum length 256 bytes]
- [must be enclosed in double quotes]
- attribute One of a several keyword identifiers including:
- euclidean is a euclidean group
- hyperbolic is a hyperbolic group
- spherical is a spherical group
- transposed the matrices are transposed
- finite this is a finite group
- model In the case that 'hyperbolic' is an attribute, and the dimension is
- three, this keyword sets the model that is
- expected for reading subsequent isometries, i.e., expects elements of
- SL(2,C) if the model is upperhalfspace or conformalball and O(3,1,R) if it is
- projective.
- projective default
- upperhalfspace
- conformalball [not currently implemented]
- display These values set characteristics of the the display of the discrete
- group.
- centercam keeps the camera centered in central dirichlet domain.
- zcull removes tiles which lie behind the camera.
- showcam if centercam is set, displays camgeom, if provided (see below).
- dimn The dimension of the space.
- ngens Number of generators.
- gens List of generators.
- nels Number of group elements.
- els List of group elements.
- wafile Word acceptor file (in DEAGL format version 2.2)
- camgeom An OOGL-format geometry description to represent the observer.
- geom An OOGL-format geometry description. Will replace the default Dirichlet domain computation.
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- String-matching of key markers and attribute values is
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- discgrp(5) Geometry Project Programs discgrp(5)
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- case-insensitive.
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- Currently all matrices must be 4x4 real matrices. Hence
- the only valid dimensions are 2,3, or 4. The typical case
- is dimension 3 where there are projective models for
- hyperbolic, euclidean, and spherical geometry. Dimension
- 2 groups should leave the z-coordinate unchanged.
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- Matrices are considered transposed if they are considered
- to act on column vectors as in: M.v = v'. This is the
- usual mathematical convention convention. So, if you use
- this convention you must mark your matrices as being
- transposed.
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- Group elements are specified by an optional character
- string followed by a list of 16 real numbers. For the
- case of generators, the character string represents the
- name of that generator. Its main use is with the automatic
- group software: the name used here should match that of
- the generator in the word acceptor file. It should, for
- example, be a single character for the software to work
- reliably. For composite elements, the string is the word
- in the generators which describes this group element.
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- OOGL libraries expect discrete group files to use the
- '.dgp' suffix.
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- A file which describes the group of the three dimensional
- torus follows:
- DISCGRP
- (group 3torus )
- (comment " This is a test of the new discrete group library. " )
- (attribute Euclidean )
- (display centercam )
- (enumdepth 3 ) # look at all words of length 3 or less in generators
- (enumdist 10.0 ) # and which don't move the origin more than 10.0
- (dimn 3 )
- (ngens 3 )
- (gens
- a
- 1 0 0 0
- 0 1 0 0
- 0 0 1 0
- 1 0 -0.1 1
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- b
- 1 0 0 0
- 0 1 0 0
- 0 0 1 0
- 0.1 1 0 1
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- c
- 1 0 0 0
- 0 1 0 0
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- 0 0 1 0
- 0 0.2 1 1
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- )
- (cpoint 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000 )
- (camgeom
- { = OFF
- 5 2 5
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- 0 0 0
- -0.1 0 0.5
- 0.1 0 0.5
- 0 -0.1 0.5
- 0 0.1 0.5
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- 3 0 1 2 200 200 0 .8
- 3 0 3 4 0 200 200 .8
- }
- )
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- FILES
- Example group files are to be found in the OOGL release in
- ${GEOM}/data/groups, where e.g., GEOM = /u/gcg/ngrap. See
- also discgrp(3) and automata(1).
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- AUTHORS
- Charlie Gunn.
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- BUGS
- For dimension 2, the code should read and write 3 x 3
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