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Re: Soccer ball pattern
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Mon, 1 Mar 1999 15:00:52 GMT
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On Sat, 27 Feb 1999 00:59:18 GMT, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman)
wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dev, john_vanzwieten@email.msn.com (John VanZwieten) writes:
> > Steve Bliss wrote in message <36d6f2f0.17111521@lugnet.com>...
> > > > minifig soccer ball: no changes
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> > > Nope. Without the pattern, it's not a soccer ball.
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> > Is the soccer ball part spherical with printed pattern, or does the physical
> > part consist of hexagons and pentagons like a real soccer ball?
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> I just checked (using an actual copy of the element :)
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> It's beautiful! -- it's actually a physical imprinted pattern in the plastic
> of hexagons and pentagons -- then all the pentagons are decorated black.
Seems like there should be a soccer-ball tessalation[1] somewhere on the
web, which could be ported to LDraw relatively easily.
Steve
[1] May be a mis-use of the term -- not sure of the limits on
tessalations.
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| (...) I just checked (using an actual copy of the element :) It's beautiful! -- it's actually a physical imprinted pattern in the plastic of hexagons and pentagons -- then all the pentagons are decorated black. --Todd (26 years ago, 27-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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