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| Domer plugin for Moray3.5
My "Domer" plugin lets you create all sorts of domes from platonic solids.
But this wasn't good enough for me. My friend said it should be possible to
make an octagon dome. So I have now included 4 tessellations of a shape
that contains octagons.
Then I was curious to see if I could make a dome with any number of
vertices. There are no regular polyhedra for this, so I used an
electrostatic repulsion simulation to distribute points more or less evenly
on a sphere. Ultimately, I chose a brute force algorithm to triangulate the
points into a mesh, since it was the only method my feeble mind could make
any sense out of. To complicate things, the vertex order of all the
triangles had to be counter clockwise (clockwise triangles render
inside-out). I added a "randomness" factor because, well, it was a variable
in the simulation so I thought I might as well expose it. It lets you
create random domes and other objects, such as rocks, to put into your
scenes.
Be sure to check out my VRML import/export plugin. Moray has a pretty good
mesh editor.
Kind regards,
Henry
www.thenerdshow.com
Not affiliated with Moray, www.stmuc.com/moray/
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