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Hello,I am currently dealing with the problem of generating 3D shapes from an "unknown" (in terms of values) set of data. Please allow me to explain:
1. I would like to sample the all of the points in a sphere that is generated by a method shown in a pic at the very bottom of the following webpage: http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/modelling/sphere.
2. Each of the sampled points will be used to compute a value.3. These values will be used to form a new surface (shape). Unfortunately, we cannot anticipate the geometry of this shape.
How should I go about generating this initially unknown geometry? I was thinking of feeding the computed values into the Irregular3DSet and somehow use the Delaunay functions, but really I don't have any idea of how these two things work? Can someone give me some pointers?
Thanks very much, john yao
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