hi,

"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> Alain <kua### [at] videotronca> wrote:
> > Le 18-09-18 à 15:11, Bald Eagle a écrit :
> > > So - here's a coil wrapping around a torus 5 times.   Super easy as a sphere
> > > weep and parametric or isosurface or polynomial...   but if the torus is
> > > deformed...
> > 5 times around ? Then, why to I count 12 rotations ?
> We use common core principles to guess at the floating-point values, and when
> you do that, 5 = 12 for sufficiently large values of 5.
>
> No really, I started off with 5, and decided it looked better with 12.

phew.  I'm so glad I read this.  :-)

fwiw, I thought the image posted Sep 4th cool, the "crumpled" surface.  it looks
a little like a kitchen/tea towel dropped, if the texture was more "terry
cloth".


regards, jr.

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