Re: The Old Golfball

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From: Walter (Jay) Turberville (III)
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 01:33

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In article <4jec1g$fcm@apollo.ekfido.kodak.com> tomblin@ekfido.kodak.com (Paul Tomblin) writes:
>From: tomblin@ekfido.kodak.com (Paul Tomblin)
>Subject: Re: The Old Golfball
>Date: 28 Mar 1996 10:42:40 -0500

>In a previous article, gmead@io.org (Glen Mead) said:
>>elements are consistent on a real golf ball.  How does one model a truly 
>>realistic looking golf ball?  If anybody could give me some pointers on how 

>Well, one thing that I'm sure would make a huge difference is to remember that
>the dimples on a golf ball are on a hexagonal grid, not a square one.


>-- 
>Paul Tomblin, Contract Programmer.

I noticed that a tesselated sphere will generate a very golfball like array of 
polygons when metaformed.  Something to look at if you want to spend a few 
hours fiddling in modeler.  I never got a good golfball this way since I 
couldn't get the dimples to smooth as much as I wanted.  But someone else may 
be more patient.


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