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  Re: Sphere with longitudes and latitudes?  
From: SharkD
Date: 8 Jan 2008 23:50:00
Message: <web.478451d6a8d0eaae458a4ca0@news.povray.org>
"Trevor G Quayle" <Tin### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> "SharkD" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> > I decided to go with an object pattern instead. It's a lot simpler.
> >
> > Here's what the object looks like:
> > http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/6177/spheregriddd8.jpg
> >
> > Here's what the scene looks like so far. I still need to change the colored
> > pigment so that it uses steps that match the grid, but that should be trivial.
> > http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/2742/hslspherewithgriday2.jpg
> >
>
> Looks good, looks like you got the maths figured out for the grid object.  The
> only real difference with what put together is you are using sphere objects for
> the layers, whereas I used an onion pattern.
>
> For the HSL colour spacing, look at the HSL pigment in my code, you will need to
> play with the LatDiv numers in all three to get what you need.
>
> -tgq

Here's one of the other differences:

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/1082/hslsphereisometricshowbh1.jpg

I can difference the whole object. It looks pretty cool. It's what I'm going to
use for the final image. I just need to add the labels and arrows and such to
make it a real diagram.


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