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3 Aug 2024 06:11:16 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Sphere/polyherdon question  
From: Shay
Date: 2 May 2004 03:59:01
Message: <4094aa45@news.povray.org>
Ilia Guzei wrote:

> I have done that, but the distribution is not even as
> the four triangles resulting from division of each
> original one are not equilateral.  The final distrib-
> ution is somewhat skewed with higher "point density"
> about the original vertices.

This will not be the case if you start with an icosahedron

> The exact number of points does not matter as long as
> it is large enough. 

60k is simple to generate exactly. I don't have the vocabulary to explain
how, but I can generate this array in a few minutes and email it to you if
you would like.

Let me know.

 -Shay


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