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3 Aug 2024 06:12:13 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Sphere/polyherdon question  
From: Sebastian H 
Date: 2 May 2004 04:48:22
Message: <4094b5d6@news.povray.org>
Paul Bourke wrote:
>>I need to approximate a sphere with 60,000 points.  How can I generate such
>>a polyhedron with equivalent points on the sphere?  Perhaps a C algorithm is
>>posted some place on this web site but I can't find it.
> 
> 
> if you can live with other numbers around 60,000 (whos going to count
> them anyway?!) then see this
>    http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/modelling/sphere/
> 

Very interesting, thank you for the link.

Sebastian H.


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