How do I run Qhull from Windows?
Qhull is a console program. You will first need a DOS window (i.e., a “DOS prompt”). You can double click on ‘eg\Qhull-go.bat’. It loads ‘doskey’ to simplify rerunning qhull and rbox. • Type ‘qconvex’, ‘qdelaunay’, ‘qhalf’, ‘qvoronoi, ‘qhull’, and ‘rbox’ for a synopsis of each program. • Type ‘rbox c D2 | qconvex s i’ to compute the convex hull of a square. • Type ‘rbox c D2 | qconvex s i TO results.txt’ to write the results to the file ‘results.txt’. A summary is still printed on the the console. • Type ‘rbox c D2’ to see the input format for qconvex. • Type ‘qconvex < data.txt s i TO results.txt' to read input data from 'data.txt'. • If you want to enter data by hand, type 'qconvex s i TO results.txt' to read input data from the console. Type in the numbers and end with a ctrl-D.
