Documentation of polymake

Basic usage and comprehensive descriptions.

• Tutorials, both for beginners and more advanced users
• The polymake interactive shell
• Demonstration of features of the new release 2.12
• Technical HowTos for specific tasks

• Release 2.12: mathematical objects, properties, methods, etc.
  Direct access to applications: polytope, fan, tropical, …

Learning how to extend polymake.

• Scripting for “power users”
• Writing C++ clients
• Using Callable Library (from release 2.10 on)
• Writing rule files
• Writing and using extensions

Details on selected topics, also linked from general pages above.

• Production rules
• Formatting help blocks
• Permutations
• Polymorphic functions
• Property type binding to C++ classes

• Publications: a list of papers with a reference to polymake. This way you can learn how other people are using the system.
• Data base of objects available in polymake-format. Contributions are welcome.
• Extensions: things programmed in polymake by other people. Stay tuned.
• Interfaces: other software packages calling polymake.

Beware: The information below may be entirely unrelated to any official release. For the documentation of the current release see the above on this page.

• Internals: (partially obsolete) introduction for developers
• Design decisions
• Documentation of the current svn version
• Still incomplete documentation of the Polymake Template Library: C++ classes for “small” objects.