Jan06_Triangle_Subdivision

Jan 06: Triangle Subdivision

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Description

Start with a 20-sided icosahedron. Subdivide each triangular face into smaller triangles. Project the vertices of all the resulting smaller triangles on to a sphere. Add rotation.

• The Code can be found here

Project Structure

• Art artifact (jpeg, png or gif)
• A brief description of the end product, and possibly the thinking behind it
• Some technical notes and challenges
• Code
• References, if any

Reference

Pages on Icosahedron creation

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodesic_polyhedron
• https://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/1045966

Code and Common Modules

icosahedron.py is what you have to run (from inside Processing) to recreate these images.

For most of these, I am using the Processing Framework. Since I mostly code in Python, I use the Python extension of Processing, which is not as popular as its Java version. Also, I sometimes create small resuable code segments which I use in multiple projects. I'm sharing all my genart code, in case others find it useful.

Ram