Shay wrote:
> many cones.
> Varying thickness of the lines gives the arrangement of flower shapes
> the appearance of a lightly-etched sphere. This is actually a flat union
> of cones in front of a cylinder.
>



You said you were going to do it, and you did it.

   I can see why the IRTC does not hold your interest creatively.

After Paul Bourke's post with the intersecting cyls I am compelled to 
think you are doing something similar.  But I know you are not.  I 
really cannot picture what you are doing! The optical perspective must 
be an apparent thing only, if this is in keeping with your earlier 
ideas? The result is lovely though.  Not just a technical brain tease. 
An optical eye tease as well.  How would a sphere covered with such a 
pattern look? Is the scale right? I grow less and less certain.  And how 
would it be lit to give the surface finish effects?  Yet the pattern 
will not flatten. And how to create such a pattern with 3d cones, 
anyway?  I picture them tumbling.  It does make allusions to 
dimensionality doesn't it.  Like those flatland books.  Explanations of 
the fourth dimension that start by asking you to first imagine only two 
dimensions.

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