Oblate earth

[pri...@gmail.com]

I just tried to make an oblate earth (spheroid). I'm not so happy about the map:

https://www.glowscript.org/#/user/priisdk/folder/gravity/program/ellipsoid 

How can I do better?

A more general suggestion:

Similar to obj.rotate, would it be possible to make  an obj.squeeze command, multiplying all coordinates of the object with a certain factor along a given axis, relative to a given origin, something like

obj.squeeze(origin=vector(...,...,...), axis=vector( ...,...,...),factor=...)?

If factor omitted, the default value could be the norm of the axis.

In this way a sphere could be modified to a spheroid (in stead of using extrusion as in my example), and you could make cylinders and rings with elliptical cross sections.

Poul Riis

[Bruce Sherwood]

I'm not sure what the issue is. Both the sphere and ellipsoid objects let you create ellipsoids:

https://www.glowscript.org/docs/VPythonDocs/sphere.html

https://www.glowscript.org/docs/VPythonDocs/ellipsoid.html

And you can make cylinders and rings have ellipsoidal cross sections. Just use non-uniform "size".

Bruce

[pri...@gmail.com]

I'll tell myself every evening before I go to bed: READ THAT MANUAL!!!

I'm sorry that I've been so stupid - again!

Poul Riis