Google's Logo...
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ha, this is fun! Is it referring to SU8 or is there another event of the day that we sketchers only see when turning on hidden geometry?
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It's 'Bucky Ball' 25th Anniversary [i.e. the awesome thinking of Buckminster Fuller]..........
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullerene etc etc etc............. -
Thanks for the enlightment TIG! Didn't even know that carbon molecules are called fullerene.
Recommendations for a book on B.F. most welcome
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Its just the same as usual for me
is it only available for countries other that USA?Edit: I can see it now...time difference? Neat...its animated!
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I bet Bucky wouldn't be moaning about SU8. I reckon he'd love SketchUp!!
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Hi,
does anyone have an idea how to construct such a ball in Sketchup. I can not think of anything at the moment.
Charly
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http://groups.google.com/group/GeodesicHelp?pli=1
TaffGoch creates geodesic domes etc. Have a look at his site. -
And all his models are on 3Dwarehouse
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@charly2008 said:
"...does anyone have an idea how to construct such a ball in Sketchup. I can not think of anything at the moment."
Specifically, Charly, this 3D-Warehouse model:
Buckyball Construction Tutorial
I found that, with older browsers, the Google logo is simply an animated gif...
...but, with modern Mozilla browsers, Google loads an ActiveX program, which draws the 3D-buckyball that can be manipulated with your mouse, in realtime. I realized this when poking through the html code, and found "(1+Math.sqrt(5))/2"For those readers having (somewhat) esoteric math knowledge, you'll recognize this as the formula for "phi," the golden number, or golden ratio. That's what I used to create a perfect icosahedron, leading ultimately to the buckyball. This was the subject of a discussion here, a few years ago:
SketchUp Community Forums > SketchUp Tutorials > Truncated Icosahedron
I'm kinda curious about who, at Google, wrote the ActiveX html code for the logo. It's nicely implemented.
-Taff
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Hi Pilou and TaffGoch,
Thankyou very much for your help. TaffGoch your method is very helpfull.
Charly
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I'm always facinated by the optical illusions these things create.
When it's in it's horizontal spin, which way is it spinning?
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