Hmmm... I guess that would have simplified my life substantially!!!!

Thanks!!!!

Fernando.

"Anders K." <and### [at] prostard2gcom> wrote in message
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> > One of the trickiest parts (I didn't
> > forsee that!) was to generate the coordinates of the initial
tetrahedron!
>
> It's a bit late I guess, but FYI, the points <K, K, K>, <-K, -K, K>,
> <K, -K, -K>, <-K, K, -K> (where K = R/sqrt(3)) form a regular tetrahedron
> and are all on a sphere of radius R (centered at the origin). This is much
> easier than letting one of the points be <0, 1, 0> and then trying to work
> out the rest of them.
>
> Anders
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