`polymake` is a (more and more versatile) tool for the algorithmic treatment of convex polyhedra and finite simplicial complexes.

As one of its many new features `polymake` now also deals with tight spans: This is the bounded subcomplex of a certain unbounded polyhedron associated to a finite metric space. See below for a "polyhedral map" of Jamaica.

The system offers access to a wide variety of algorithms and packages within a common framework. polymake is flexible and continuously expanding. The software supplies C++ and perl interfaces which make it highly adaptable to individual needs.

The current version 2.1.0 was released December 16, 2004.