Nifty. I raise a glass of green Tranya in your honor.

"Bob Hughes" <omniverse@charter%net> wrote:
> Watched this ST episode again, recorded on a VHS tape several years ago. The
> colors very faded. One of my favorites of Star Trek. I'm part trekkie
> anyhow. Maybe you know which show this was, too. Always wanted to put that
> enormous spaceship together in POV and so I finally did over the past couple
> days. The Enterprise is just some spheres, cylinders, cones, boxes.
>
> What took me the longest time to do was finding a way to put the spheres all
> around into another spherical shape. I knew people had done plenty on that
> subject, uniform or random distribution. I didn't want to copy someone else
> so I tried looking for just a simple equation. When I did find one it was
> chaotic, something didn't seem right anyway, so I changed it around until I
> got what you see here. It still isn't like the ship, which had a hexagonal
> pattern.
>
> Attached is three of the frames (with added force field) . The animation
> itself (no force field) can be found at my site via the Animations link.
> Nothing perfected at all, just playing with POV once again.
>
> Thanks for looking!
> --
> Bob H  www.3digitaleyes.com
> http://3digitaleyes.com/imagery/

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