How do you turn a cube into a sphere?

Posted by Tom Dalling on Game Development See other posts from Game Development or by Tom Dalling
Published on 2012-11-14T09:12:44Z Indexed on 2012/11/14 11:19 UTC
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I'm trying to make a quad sphere based on an article, which shows results like this:

correct

I can generate a cube correctly:

before

But when I convert all the points according to this formula (from the page linked above):

formula

    x = x * sqrtf(1.0 - (y*y/2.0) - (z*z/2.0) + (y*y*z*z/3.0));
    y = y * sqrtf(1.0 - (z*z/2.0) - (x*x/2.0) + (z*z*x*x/3.0));
    z = z * sqrtf(1.0 - (x*x/2.0) - (y*y/2.0) + (x*x*y*y/3.0));

My sphere looks like this:

after

As you can see, the edges of the cube still poke out too far. The cube ranges from -1 to +1 on all axes, like the article says.

Any ideas what is wrong?

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