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Re: ULTIMATE CHALLENGE

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Originally Posted by Andy A.
You've got me on the golf ball. Short of a whole lot of Boolean operations (subtracting the dimples from a sphere) and careful construction geometry, I can't think of an easy way to do it. With out a golf ball at hand, I can't be sure there isn't some obvious pattern to the dimples. I've always assumed there was no pattern to it, but I could be wrong.
-Andy A.
There most definitely IS a pattern. The dimples appear to be placed in a hexagonal arrangement. I don't know about any other programs, but the array and 3darray functions in AutoCAD should be able to handle this.
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