[pstricks] [Fwd: pstricks/pst-solides3d question]

[Jean-Paul Vignault]

Hi,

 > I would really like to have a pstricks picture of a truncated octahedron
 > in my thesis (semiconductor physics) to show points of symmetry in the
 > first Brillouin zone of an fcc lattice.  I did a google search and the
 > only thing I could find is the pst-solides3d package, but all the
 > documentation is in French, which I don't read, and the package only
 > generates a regular octahedron.  Does anybody have pstricks code to
 > generate a truncated octahedron? If so would you be willing to share it?
 > Would anybody know a way to induce pst-solides3d to generate one?
 > Failing all that, does anybody have any hints/suggestions as to how to
 > generate such a figure using pstricks?

Something like that ?
 
http://syracuse.eu.org/lab/bpst/pst-solides3d/troncatures/truncoctahedron.pst

an other :
 
http://syracuse.eu.org/lab/bpst/pst-solides3d/troncatures/truncoctahedron2.pst

the octahedron with numbers on edges :
 
http://syracuse.eu.org/lab/bpst/pst-solides3d/troncatures/truncoctahedron0.pst

You need the actuel release :
    http://syracuse-dev.org/pst-solides3d/browser/trunk

(need solides.pro and pst-solides3d.tex)

 > Thanks.

Regards,

 > Aaron

Jean-Paul