Okay.. this isn't perfect, but it should give you a good start...My
points are obviously NOT equidistant, but it should be a heck of a lot
easier than manually defining the points.

Steve


Stephen Lavedas wrote:
> 
> I know what you want, and I've done it with triangles... but actually it
> was with points, so I guess my function would work, you just set it to
> the center point of the torus.  Let me modify my #macro and get back to
> you.
> 
> Steve
> 
> Morgan Larch wrote:
> >
> > I may not be understanding but can you clip the tori with a cylinder,
> > as in an difference ?
> >
> > Peter Houston wrote:
> > >
> > > Not quite what I was looking for, I want the tori to be flat on the outside
> > > of the sphere, imagine a polyhedron or geosphere with tori on each of the
> > > faces.
> > >
> > > Thanks anyway,
> > >
> > > Peter Houston
> > >
> > > Julius Klatte wrote in message <36ac50fd.0@news.povray.org>...
> > >
> > > >Check out http://surf.to/uagalleries and visit the 'fantasy
> > > >artwork' gallery. There's an example of a sphere made of
> > > >tori incl. source.
> > > >
> > > >Julius
> > > >
> > > >

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