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26 Apr 2024 23:14:35 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Tetrahedral planetoid  
From: Paolo Gibellini
Date: 12 Jun 2019 01:49:35
Message: <5d00926f@news.povray.org>
Bill Pragnell wrote on 12/06/2019 01:12:
> Greetings all
> 
> This is an unexpectedly successful bit of tinkering; didn't start as a serious
> project but I thought I'd share today's results. It's my take on Escher's
> 'Tetrahedral Planetoid' - mostly procedurally generated, using spherical shells
> differenced with cones centred on tetrahedron faces as a basis, and some trig
> and transform jiggery-pokery to place simple buildings.
> 
> It's not finished yet - I'm considering some more details like ships or islands,
> some greenery, towers or masts on the vertices, and I think I can make bridges
> under the low points on the edges to join up the water pools.
> 
> Any comments or suggestions welcome!
> 
> Bill
> 
A notable image.
What kind of physical phenomena will there be on such a planet? Winds 
(and waves), bizarre clouds, ...

;-)
Paolo


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