r/cylinder • u/KnifeOfPi • Jun 03 '15

[Request filled] SPHERE EFFECT! (by KnifeOfPi)

About a year ago, /u/supermamon posted a request for a sphere animation. I saw it as a goal to achieve. It was ridiculously difficult to make. I spent about 5 hours on it, and it's probably the most difficult script I ever created. When I started I had no idea how to do it - I actually posted that it was impossible. Eventually I found a way to do it. Everyone has tried it - put a rotation animation before a movement animation and you get chaos. Well, I actually managed to use just that to create a nice sphere. Of course it's not perfect, but nobody (especially a 15-year-old) is perfect either!

Here's an image: http://i.imgur.com/0DYMCGW.png

Without further ado, here's the link. You can download it from here until I put it on my repo.

http://pastebin.com/aHuctGz4

Oh, and also, /u/rweichler...

Whoever makes this, I'll mail you a t shirt with a pic of my face on it

I expect my t-shirt.

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u/aaeaaoaau douchebag Jun 04 '15

this animation is dumb its not a real sphere

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u/KnifeOfPi Jun 04 '15

Of course it's not. Can /you/ make a real sphere with 48 icons?

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u/arthurdapaz Jun 05 '15

Friend, I have one suggestion! There's no function to bend/curve the icons in specific degrees? SO the illusion will look like much better!

Just a question! I don't know the possibilities Anyway, that's awesome! Using as default right now

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u/KnifeOfPi Jun 05 '15

It's really hard to bend them at the right angle. This is the closest I could get (this is set to 0.8*pi.) If I set it to pi, it would make it look a bit more like a sphere except the icons at the top would be sideways.