How to render tessellated sphere

[dotsorg]

is there a way to do it or there is maybe a way to model it? i need it for those reflective surfaces from the light , something like this:

http://www.reuk.co.uk/OtherImages/led-spotlights.jpg

[dalomar_cg]

Re: How to render tessellated sphere

Well surfaces in Rhino are NURBS, and to render them we need a mesh. So Rhino translates that NURBS surface into a mesh, which is always, to some degree, faceted. If you mesh your object with very low quality settings, then you might be enough to get a faceted object. The other way is to just model it how you want it.

[Micha_cg]

Re: How to render tessellated sphere

... If you mesh your object with very low quality settings, then you might be enough to get a faceted object.

_extractrendermesh and _unweld 10 should help to get it without smoothing. The command _MeshSphere allow to create a sphere with defined mesh count.

[dotsorg]

Re: How to render tessellated sphere

thank you guys , this is what i manage to model and render so far

[Sando]

Re: How to render tessellated sphere

That's a handy trick and looks like it works well too.

Good work!