POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Polydoodle : Re: Polydoodle Server Time
18 Aug 2024 22:29:57 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Polydoodle  
From: David Fontaine
Date: 23 Feb 2001 17:01:22
Message: <3A96DD50.8B1DA5B2@faricy.net>
Josh English wrote:

> These are fun images. Would you mind explaining the basic method you used to
> generate these? I can tell that the first on is genereated by boxes that are
> rotated certain amounts, the second is built by tetrahedra, and the third by
> octahedrons, but what about the specific rotations?

The tetrahedra and octahedra ones are stellations of the icosahedron. The cube
one probably has some properties you can use to find the rotations. The rest is
a matter trig or analytic geometry, so that's an issue of your own comfort with
mathematics... if you want I can explain some more.

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