Ahh...okay, so the size of the box determines all else..I will work on
this.. oh, and did you ever think that perhaps the reason you are
getting lost is because you don't indent and therefore have to spend all
of your time thinking about where you are in the program?

Steve


Ken wrote:
> 
> Stephen Lavedas wrote:
> >
> > Okay Ken... you have a couple of magic numbers in here (a magic number
> > is a number that is just there for some reason and no logical
> > explaination is known except by the author)  The most important one is
> > 1.6*pi/90-bb where did you get this figure?  I am trying to figure it
> > out, and my guess is that you just kept tweaking it until there weren't
> > any gaps...Also, where did you come up with the origial scale for the
> > box?
> >
> > Steve
> >
> 
> Don't you just love magic numbers :)
> 
> The 1.6*pi/90-bb was arrived at by a certain amount of tweaking but you
> would be surprised at how quickly I found it. The 1.6 is the box's Yscale
> demension +.1 (Why ? because .1 worked better than just 1.5 that's why).
> I can't remember why "pi" worked so well here but it does. The 90 part of
> the equation comes from the number of degrees the box must travel to form
> the section that will later be rotated 180 degrees to form the half dome.
> The -bb is the regressive scaling factor. Simple no ?  This function is
> necessary to scale each box in sucsession smaller than it predessesor.
> Without it you have a terrible mess at the top of the dome. It seemed like
> a logical approach at the time and there is no doubting that it works.
> 
>   The original scaling for the box was arrived ar to match the opening of
> an archway with those demensions and the half dome had to conform to scene
> elements that were already fixed and unchangable. As I mentioned I would like
> (you) to set up the math in the script so that the box defines the rest of the
> parameters. Changing the scale of the box for development purposes won't hurt
> a thing.
> 
> Thanks for the continued support.
> 
> --
> Ken Tyler
> 
> mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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