It's a bit complicated to explain, and my code is so
terrible that I don't dare post it.  Briefly, I thought
of the problem as lining the interior of a dome with
rows of tiles.  So, I used trigonometry to calculate
the X and Y position of one endpoint of each row and
then rotated the tiles around the Y axis.  The number of
tiles in each row was calculated by taking the
circumference of the circle defined by the end points
and dividing it by the size of the tile.  I then
rotated each tile to the proper angle.  Seems like
a lot of work for just this effect and I wonder if
there is not an easier way ...

Aaron

Aaron Gillies
New York City
x3rxes[^]yahoo.com


George Pantazopoulos wrote:
> Thats pretty amazing Aaron, how do you get tiles to line an arbitrary
> surface like that? And with a pattern no less?
> 
> George

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