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Still a work in progress.
Generates the shapes and then serializes them to a JSON file with a list of
vertices (`positions`) and a list of triangle faces (`cells`) that index into
the list of vertices. Suitable for input into [Three.js's
BufferGeometry](https://threejs.org/docs/#api/en/core/BufferGeometry) or
[regl](https://github.com/regl-project/regl/blob/gh-pages/example/camera.js).
Icosahedrons can be generated significantly faster than Three.js's version in
JavaScript (which I pretty much copied into Rust).
Trunacated icosahedrons (I call them hexspheres) are a bit slower to generate
since they are made by generating a icosahedron and then subdividing it into
hexagon and pentagon faces. I still have some work to do to improve that code.
I'm still having issues rendering hexspheres of detail level 5 and higher and
icosahedrons of detail level of 7 and higher, so I'm not sure if those are
accurate.