Bill DeWitt <bde### [at] cflrrcom> wrote in message
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>
>     I want to make an animation that shows how planets look in one of
those
> diagrams that show the gravity well as a flat surface that is dented where
> the planets lay on it. I hope to make it look like spongy rubber instead
of
> a grid, maybe a mesh, but I can't imagine calculating all the points as
the
> pieces move...
>

As a surface, I have no idea, but you could use splines and create
parallel lines, kinda like in the image Tor Olav Kristensen posted
on 22 Nov 2000, titled "Iso-sombrero (78KB)" (But without the
underling surface)

Would probably work fairly well for a still, as for animating it
<shudder>

Gail
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