---
name: "gtscompare"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "gts"
version: "0.7.6.121130-5"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/gtscompare"
---

# gtscompare(1)

compare two GTS files.

## NAME

gtscompare - compare two GTS files.

## SYNOPSIS

**gtscompare** \[*OPTIONS*\] *FILE1 FILE2 DELTA*

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the  **gtscompare** command.

*DELTA* is the sampling length expressed as a fraction of the bounding box diagonal of the second surface.

## OPTIONS

This program follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (\`-'). A summary of options is included below.

- **-s**, **--symmetric**

  Symmetric statistics.

- **-i**, **--image**

  Output visualisation mesh.

- **-c** *FILE,* **--cmap=***FILE*

  Load *FILE* as colormap.

- **-m** *VAL,* **--min=***VAL*

  Use *VAL* as minimum scaling value.

- **-M** *VAL,* **--max=***VAL*

  Use *VAL* as maximum scaling value.

- **-r**, **--reverse**

  Reverse colormap.

- **-l**, **--log**

  Use log scale.

- **-h**, **--help**

  Display the help and exit.

## AUTHOR

gtscompare was written by Stephane Popinet \<popinet@users.sourceforge.net\>.

This manual page was written by Ruben Molina \<rmolina@udea.edu.co\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).