A Better Sphere Than Earth
Channel: Codeus
Date: 2024-02-07

How many triangles would you need to build a more *spherical* sphere than Earth ? 100 ? 100,000 ? 100,000,000 ?

- Available animations code: 
Triangles intro code: https://github.com/Coddeus/vera/blob/main/examples/main/triangles/src/main.rs
Geodesic spheres scenes code (2 commented scenes) & the concrete maths of it: https://github.com/Coddeus/vera/blob/main/examples/main/sphere/src/main.rs

- Song: Scott Buckley - Adrift Among Infinite Stars

- Software used: 
Most Animation & Modelling: https://github.com/Coddeus/vera
Also Modelling: Blender
Audio recording: Audacity
Video/Audio editing: Shotcut
Images editing: Paint & Paint 3D (yeah)

- Images credits: 
Icosahedron division process: By Tomruen - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=56100755
Triangle division by frequency / Geodesic polyhedra examples: at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodesic_polyhedron
Centered subtriangle: By Tomruen - Own work [1], CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=14685088

- License: This video is licensed CC-BY.

- Timestamps: 
0:00 Expectations
0:27 Earth's croust
1:10 Dividing the sphere
1:22 Usual globe division
1:54 Geodesic division
2:30 Geodesic base
3:16 Extremes of a geodesic sphere
4:12 Results
4:38 An open problem?