In article <web.422bc2902685c12fe6ef12d50@news.povray.org>,
 "X-Caliber" <nomail@nomail> wrote:

>>I want to create a faceted checkered sphere (much along the lines of the
>>Amiga "Boing!" ball).
>>
>>To do this I figure I'd take a sphere, build a several rings of boxes (one
>>for each vertical level of facets, eight I guess), each ring rotationally
>>staggered from the one above/below (I figure seven boxes per ring, so each
>>staggered ring would be rotated along the vertical axis by 1/14th of a full
>>rotation), and then this superstructure would be merged together, given one
>>set of attributes to cut into the sphere with, spun 1/14th a turn, and cut
>>again with another set of attributes.
>>
>>I could be pretty far ahead of myself here though, as I don't really know
>>how to do any of that. :-)

  hi,

  have a look in povray.binaries.images.
  and yes, it's a mesh {}.

  klp

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