On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 09:14:19 +0100, Herman Serras
<Her### [at] pandorabe> wrote:

>Hello Pete,
>I like this picture very much: it's a nice combination of geometry, art
>and raytracing. As a mathematician I'm interested in polyhedra (as one
>can see on my website), but being a novice in povray I'm interested in
>the source of your picture or, if you prefer not to distribute it, tell
>us more about the construction of the object based on the dodecahedron.
>I'm sure that I'm not the only interested person.
>Friendly greetings!
>-- 
>Herman Serras
>Gent (Belgium)
>http://cage.rug.ac.be/~hs/


Umm, well ... the construction of this dodecahedron is
not mathematically "pure".  Two angles are used to rotate
copies of a pentagonal "face" object.  One angle is 72
degrees (easy, as it is a known integer value, being 1/5th
of 360), the other was ... um ... derived by trial and
error.

Code is posted as a zip on povray.binaries.scene-files.
2 warnings: (1) it uses v3.5 features  (2) It needs
nine bitmaps to build the background hallway pigment.
I've not included them because they are huge and are
not that important.  Just use any nine pics you have
lying around.


Pete

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