flat surfaces on a sphere
flat surfaces on a sphere
(OP)
Having problems placing 2X2 squares on a spherical object and making them normal to surface..can anyone help...Thanks
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS Come Join Us!Are you an
Engineering professional? Join Eng-Tips Forums!
*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail. Posting GuidelinesJobs |
flat surfaces on a sphere
|
RE: flat surfaces on a sphere
RE: flat surfaces on a sphere
RE: flat surfaces on a sphere
A general solution might to pick one of the spherical polyhedrons (e.g a soccer ball with pentagons) and work from there.
As for getting at least one normal, you can create a sphere (or part of one) create a plane tangent to its surface, and sketch a square on that. After that, it probably depends on the pattern you want to create. Maybe someone else has some ideas?
BTW, you might Google "Tiling a sphere" There is lots of discussion out there on this. Or look here for some images: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_polyhedron
Mark
RE: flat surfaces on a sphere