I'm cheating, I know. I must confess I got the idea (and the radiosity
parameters) from Arie L. Stavchansky's last post, so thanks, Arie L., tip of
the hat to you.

Anyway, I felt like putting all those Computer Science and Computer
Engineering credits to use, and come upo with an algorithm for a tetrahedron
macro. My first macro, actually, and not much of one, I'm sure. Probably
been done half a dozen times before, too, but so what? I'm proud of it like
a soccer father on a Sunday afternoon.

The best part is that it gave me an idea for  the "Your Ten Best Images"
contest.

What do you think?

Ruy

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Nice image.... :-)

I did one of those once, I tried to make it general enough that you could enter
the number of sides for the base and it would calculate the resulting prism made
of spheres. I lost interest in it though when I figured out that I had forgotten
most of my high school trig....

-paul

Ruy wrote:

> I'm cheating, I know. I must confess I got the idea (and the radiosity
> parameters) from Arie L. Stavchansky's last post, so thanks, Arie L., tip of
> the hat to you.
>
> Anyway, I felt like putting all those Computer Science and Computer
> Engineering credits to use, and come upo with an algorithm for a tetrahedron
> macro. My first macro, actually, and not much of one, I'm sure. Probably
> been done half a dozen times before, too, but so what? I'm proud of it like
> a soccer father on a Sunday afternoon.
>
> The best part is that it gave me an idea for  the "Your Ten Best Images"
> contest.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Ruy
>
>  [Image]

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"paul jones" <pdj### [at] psuedu> escreveu na mensagem
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> Nice image.... :-)

Thanks!

> I did one of those once, I tried to make it general enough that you could
enter
> the number of sides for the base and it would calculate the resulting
prism made
> of spheres. I lost interest in it though when I figured out that I had
forgotten
> most of my high school trig....

This one just asks you for the number of spheres on one side of the base,
nothing else. It also tries (and, so far, fails to)  keep the total height
of 1 sphere. I'm close, though...

Ruy

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Hi Ruy,

I'm glad my work came to be an inspiration to you :)  I had thought about
making the pyramids, but alas I have no time :(  Thank you for posting this.
Good luck on making that image you got in you head. . .can't wait to see it.

Take care,
Arie

"Ruy" <ruy### [at] hipernetcombr> wrote in message
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> I'm cheating, I know. I must confess I got the idea (and the radiosity
> parameters) from Arie L. Stavchansky's last post, so thanks, Arie L., tip
of
> the hat to you.
>
> Anyway, I felt like putting all those Computer Science and Computer
> Engineering credits to use, and come upo with an algorithm for a
tetrahedron
> macro. My first macro, actually, and not much of one, I'm sure. Probably
> been done half a dozen times before, too, but so what? I'm proud of it
like
> a soccer father on a Sunday afternoon.
>
> The best part is that it gave me an idea for  the "Your Ten Best Images"
> contest.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Ruy
>
>
>
>
>

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