3D Sphere

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Author

• Author: ThreeDee
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Description
Not just any old ball, this is a 3D sphere with spherical image mapping that is fully rotatable on all three axis.From marbles to billiard balls and bowling balls, from beach balls and disco balls to planets, anything that fits the shape can be made with it. Just add texture. Rotation controls are slightly counter-intuitive, for y- and x-axis are relative to the the sphere and z-axis is relative to the viewer. Nevertheless, you can get the ball to rotate to any spatial orientation with a combination of the three.Special thanks goes to Uberzev, whose snippets are used for polar coordinate transformation and z- axis rotation.

Keywords
sphere, 3D, rotation, x-axis, y-axis, z-axis, dimension, object, ball, orb, planet, bubble, mapping, texture

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Filter Details

• Downloads: 4404
• Submitted: Oct 08, 2008
• Usage Rank: Low
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Filter Controls

• Image Repeat
• X-Axis Rotation
• Y-Axis Rotation
• Z-Axis Rotation
• Background
• Background Color
• Reflectivity
• Reflection Blur
• Metallicity