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  Re: How do I design a dice ?  
From: Marc Jacquier
Date: 8 May 2003 13:21:56
Message: <3eba9234@news.povray.org>

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> >Is there a simple way, or shall I start with a cube and combine it with
> >cylinders at the edges and spheres at the corners ?
>
> Depends what kind of corners you want. Maybe intersection of box and
sphere
> works.
That's the way I think dices are shaped:
intersection {
  sphere {0,1}
  box {-1, 1 scale sqrt(2)/2 //box sides middles tangent to sphere
  }
 }

then you make a difference with spheres unions to place the dots

Marc


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