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Approximating a sphere using CSS - and pumpkins!

Maciek Fitzner on November 21, 2023

Before I get to the main topic, please allow me to paint you a more detailed picture of how I got into 3D CSS: I have been obsessed with 3D graphi...
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Ben Halpern

Very cool

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Maciek Fitzner • Edited

Thank you! There'll be a Part Two - about how regular polyhedra: your classic cube, dodecahedron, tetrahedron even - could also be seen as very rough approximations of a sphere, and could serve as a basis for more detailed models. Not sure when, these things tend to take forever to conceptualize and edit into a semi-coherent whole that doesn't run in circles (I hope). I also have a few things to try. But it's a fascinating journey. E.g. it blows my mind that this:

is just 62 faces