sphere

FV = sphere(r=1; radius=1.0, n=1, center=(0.0, 0.0, 0.0))::GMTfv

Create a triangulated geodesic sphere.

Generates a geodesic sphere triangulation based on the number of refinement iterations n and the radius r. Geodesic spheres (aka Buckminster-Fuller spheres) are triangulations of a sphere that have near uniform edge lenghts. The algorithm starts with a regular icosahedron. Next this icosahedron is refined n times, while nodes are pushed to a sphere surface with radius r at each iteration.

Args

• r: the radius of the sphere.

Kwargs

• radius: the keyword radius is an alternative to the positional argument r.

• n: is the number of iterations used to obtain the sphere from the icosahedron.

• center: A tuple of three numbers defining the center of the sphere.

Returns

A GMTfv FacesVertices object.

Example

Create a sphere with radius = 1, and two iterations.

using GMT

FV = sphere(n=2);
viz(FV)

See Also

cube, cylinder, dodecahedron, icosahedron, octahedron, replicant, tetrahedron, torus,