Datasheet

Part 1: Getting Started

You must orient the planes to the correct angles so that they uniformly hug the sphere as shown in

Figure 1.11.

plane.rotationX=phiTilt[i];

plane.rotationY=-j*thetaStep[i];

For this particular example the vectors for the plane positions and angles were obtained from Flash &

Math ( http://www.flashandmath.com/ ).

Figure 1-11

As in the previous example, you use the z - sorter and

mouseX displacement algorithm code to sort the

rectangles correctly in depth and move the entire container using the

rotationY method.

The complete image ball code is listed below:

//imports sprite and stage class

import flash.display.DisplayObject;

import flash.display.Sprite;

import flash.display.Stage;

import flash.geom.Vector3D;

//Add Particle Array

var particles_ary:Array = [];

var myDisplayObject:Sprite= new Sprite();

//Image Ball Parameters

//Parameters adapted from Flash & Math

// http://www.flashandmath.com/

var jLen:Vector. < Number > =new Vector. < Number > ();

jLen=Vector. < Number > ([1,6,10,12,10,6,1]);

var thetaStep:Vector. < Number > =new Vector. < Number > ();

thetaStep=Vector. < Number > ([0,60,36,30,36,60,0]);

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