Sphere with Equally Spaced Holes
Sphere with Equally Spaced Holes
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I'm trying to create a sphere with small holes in it that are equally spaced. In essence, I'm looking for a circular pattern but in 3 dimensions. Any suggestions?
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RE: Sphere with Equally Spaced Holes
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RE: Sphere with Equally Spaced Holes
What is the math for the solution for some number of features equally spaced on a sphere? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphere_packing gives a clue. Each contact point represents the location for an equally spaced feature on the sphere. You could then pattern that pattern somehow to create the feature density you want.
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RE: Sphere with Equally Spaced Holes
Hopefully he will see this and respond.
RE: Sphere with Equally Spaced Holes
CorBlimeyLimey asked me about this and I'll try to offer some help. Plus, you have a good handle.
Fejes Tóth is the man who first solved this problem.
This is a huge problem, and I am by no means came up with the solution to it. Some things I must keep, but my macro leveraged the following.
It was solved in MATLAB by Paul Leopardi. If you have MATLAB it can be obtained, and used. http://eqsp.sourceforge.net/
I did a lot of math and programming in engineering school, but this is a really hard problem I just found a way to put together his work, and the work done from the point import macro, and I have yet to get a delaunay macro that was posted in the SW forums into the whole thing.
If you want to see how complicated of a problem it really is, check the PHD paper he did on it in 07.
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