Am 24.07.2013 21:09, schrieb MichaelJF:
> "MichaelJF" <mi-### [at] t-onlinede> wrote:
>> clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
>>> Am 24.07.2013 16:19, schrieb Cousin Ricky:
>>>> "Shay" <non### [at] nonecom> wrote:
>>>>> If you think you've got it figured out, try it. $50 to the POV-Ray wishlist
>>>>> (presuming this still exists) if anyone else can get it.
>>>>
>>>> I can visualize the parts that need to fit together.  The hard part will be the
>>>> non-Euclidian math needed to make them match up.
>>>
>>> Indeed!
>>
>> No, no non-Euclidian math is needed here. One can solve the puzzle only with
>> Euclid and Pythagoras but one has to think in polar coordinates instead of
>> Euclidian ones and heavily use rotate. I really liked this Little challenge
>> since I was a Little bit bored looking at Smoking mountains and needed a break.
>> But unfortunatelly I have not the time to accomplish the full Picture.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Michael
>
> To illustrate this a bit. If you add a new slice of the surrounding sphere and
> cut out the blue "circles" rotated eight times around the y-axis, fill in
> appropriate scaled, cut and transformed tori and finally eight little spheres
> you have solved the problem of the upper pikes.

I have no trouble coming up with the necessary CSG; buth the precise 
placement of the elements seems less trivial to me.

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