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how to make a spherical polyhedra using Potential Blocks?

Asked by Liu Zhiruo on 2020-04-23

Hi,
I want to make a spherical polyhedron using Potential Blocks.But I haven't found a good way to get the value of the parameters a,b,c and d.How to solve this?
Thanks in advance.

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Vasileios Angelidakis
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Best Vasileios Angelidakis (vsangelidakis) said : #1

Hi Zhiruo,

There is no built-in function to do this for the Potential Blocks, but there is one for polyhedra, used in [1].
You can get the plane coefficients a,b,c,d like in [2] (answer #9).

Best Regards,
Vasileios

[1] https://gitlab.com/yade-dev/trunk/-/blob/master/examples/polyhedra/ball.py
[2] https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/689434

Liu Zhiruo (luckyliu) said : #2

Hi Vasileios ,
Thanks for your advice.I got it.