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5 Aug 2024 16:12:02 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Placing objects on spheres...  
From: Jan Walzer
Date: 27 Aug 2002 16:20:23
Message: <3d6bdf07@news.povray.org>
"TinCanMan" <Tin### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> ... . The
> limitation here is that you are restricted to the number of points related
> to the iteration level 'n' (I don't know the formula off the top of my
> head).

If you're really doing "standard" triangulation of a sphere with equidistant
points, then it should be something like s*(4^n) triangles where s is the
number of the starting triangles (its easy if you start with an octaeder)


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