POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Tech Sphere WIP : Re: Tech Sphere WIP Server Time
5 Jul 2025 15:46:38 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Tech Sphere WIP  
From: Paul Jones
Date: 3 Oct 2000 14:42:30
Message: <39DA27CC.955AD145@psu.edu>
Thanks a bunch...  !:-)

Rune wrote:
> 
> "Paul Daniel Jones" wrote:
> > How did you do the sphere???
> 
> The sphere is made of 6 faces, like if it was a cube. Each face has 4x4
> pieces. Each piece is an intersection of 4 planes and a sphere, and then a
> smaller sphere is differenced away from it. All the pieces are mapped with
> bump_maps. Some of the pieces are translated a bit away from the center.
> That's it, basically.
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Rune
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