bstein@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Brian T. Stein) (02/25/91)
I was wondering if anyone had some suggestions in rendering a, I guess it would be called a "20 sided regular polyhedron." The figure has faces composed of triangles which are a compilation of spheres. It is really a molecule, but I don't have the name with me. I started to figure out how to calculate the location of each sphere in relation to others on the same face, and then to the spheres on faces that are connected to it. (By the way, each edge consists of 6 spheres, and all of them are relatively small). But this is too time consuming, and I don't have any major rendering software. This is sad, but we were using DesignCAD (I think that was it). Obviously rendering is not what we do. The way I was going about it would have consisted of a wicked script file that would have to be calculated by hand, or I would be forced to write some Mod-2 code to dump the correct ascii format. If anyone knows of something (I can go to the FTP sites if there is either an image already rendered or some rendering software). The system choices are: The 25-Mhz 386 MS-Dos machine I started on, that is the one with Design-CAD, and it has VGA. Or, I could use my own computer, which is an Amiga, and I do have tracing software for it. Any and all suggestions please! Brian Please send me E-Mail.....