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18 Apr 2024 10:41:09 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Tetrahedral planetoid  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 12 Jun 2019 02:52:04
Message: <5d00a114$1@news.povray.org>
On 12-6-2019 1:12, Bill Pragnell wrote:
> 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
> 


Aaah! A return to the tetrahedral universe!

-- 
Thomas


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