Re: OT: Metapost experts help with soccerball

[Antonio Olivares]

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On Sun, 8/6/17, José Abílio Matos  wrote:

Subject: Re: OT:  Metapost experts help with soccerball
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 Date: Sunday, August 6, 2017, 2:45 PM

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 Sunday, 6 August 2017 19.40.55 WEST Antonio Olivares
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Dear Fedora users,
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Is there anyone that can help create a soccerball image
 using metapost?
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Use exact coordinates as recommended in
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http://www.hoist-point.com/soccerball.htm
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I created one using gnuplot but it is just an approximation,
 the numbers are
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not correct.  The picture can be found
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http://plotshare.com/index.ws/plot/166954608
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It is not mathematically correct, I believe that using
 metapost it can be
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drawn more precise, but my skills are limited.  If anyone
 can help with
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this, it is greatly appreciated.
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Best Regards,
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Antonio
  
 I
 have never used metapost but using tikz I found this:
 https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/269108/truncated-icosahedron-in-tikz
  
 Lately
 I have been using tikz and I like the final result.
  
 Regards,
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José
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It does not have the pentagons filled with color.  This does not make the picture come to life.

There might be some mathematica notebooks out there, but they are not free, and cannot translate to code that we can use such as octave, or maxima.  I have found a Geogebra page which does have the filled pentagons

https://www.geogebra.org/material/show/id/AfNmbnDD

But I would prefer it be in metapost.  Not all my machines have texlive, not all of them have java as well.  I hope that with a bit of time, someone who knows metapost can help translate the code from the hoist point website which is more precise.  Or a more solidly colored geogebra one.

Best Regards,

Antonio