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Hi Ibrahim, > Is there a class in VisAD which can be used to create spheres easily... > something like, if I define the co-oridnates of the centre and the > length of diamter, it should render a spherical volume. How else can you > create spheres? To use octahedra seems to me to make rendering > spheres more difficult then it should be. No. You may be able to find a routine on the web for approximating a sphere as a set of triangles. It is a general geometry problem. Good luck, Bill ---------------------------------------------------------- Bill Hibbard, SSEC, 1225 W. Dayton St., Madison, WI 53706 hibbard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 608-263-4427 fax: 608-263-6738 http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/vis.html
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