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Spherical surface

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- [Instructor] Now we'll look at the special case of paneling a sphere. Of course, not all buildings are spheres, in fact, very few are, but many buildings have parts of spheres, either in parts of facades, or perhaps domes. This will also give us a chance to look at edge conditions, like the fact that some of these panels will end up being four-sided, and some, near the poles, will have to be three-sided. To start, I'm using this particular sphere, but you can use any, and I'm using two sliders, one to specify the latitudinal divisions, and one to specify the longitudinal divisions. Let's start by arraying points evenly along the meridian, using the latitudinal divisions, and we'll use vectors to do this more efficiently. The way we'll go about this is we'll take the X axis, we'll use vector dot X axis, and we're going to rotate that with vector dot rotate, about the Y axis, in order to point it up, so, if we rotate it by negative 90 degrees, it would point perfectly up, and if we…

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