Saturday, May 2, 2015

Spherical

Been thinking it would be nice to add a colored triangle to the surface
of a sphere. So far:

from Wolfram Mathworld:





from Grapher


Grapher Primitives:


Omitting considering sint values:

Only doing a half of the y axis values:


Spherical Easel Download:


I should be able to - with spherical geometry and its formulas - draw
a triangle with arcs as sides, and fit it 'manually' to my Grapher sphere.



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Grapher, add amended copy:
(Note on the original sphere, the values in brackets give the origin; the *2, the relative size.)



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Getting the hang of it!




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