.TH AREA
 6 "IRIT Version 6.0" 
.SH NAME
AREA



 NumericType AREA( PolygonType Object )

Returns the area of the given Object (in object units). Returned is
the area of the polygonal object, not the area of the primitive it might
approximate.

This means that the area of a polygonal approximation of a sphere will be
returned, not the exact area of the sphere.