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29 Jul 2024 00:27:17 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Superellipsoid index of shapes.  
From: Bob Hughes
Date: 6 Mar 1999 06:06:32
Message: <36E10C01.82E7DB9@aol.com>
Not to mention the negative values possible (oops!)
Since I did though, two negatives don't seem to work, as in <-1,-1>, but
<1,-1> is okay (or is it <-1,1>?). Mike Hough was doing these kinds of
shapes a while back.


Ken wrote:
> 
> Matt Giuer wrote:
> >
> > > Here is an index to 100 superellipsoid shapes.
> >
> > > The values range from  <1, 0.1 to 1> to <0.1, 0.1 to 1> starting
> > > at the top left to right ending with the bottom left to right.
> >
> >         If anyone is otherwise interested, the range is not 0 to 1 but 0
> > to how ever high POV can compute. 2,2 is two pyramids base to
> > base. Higher numbers start looking like jacks without the balls
> > on the tips.
> >
> > --
> > http://members.aol.com/jull43
> 
> I choose that range because it fit the screen better and for no other
> reason. Anymore and you could not tell the shapes the objects were
> taking and that was the point of the exersize in the first place.
> 
> --
> Ken Tyler
> 
> mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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