Simple Primitives

About

Hi there! My name is Floris and I made this website during an internship at Q42 in 2020. I came up to this idea with my intership coach when I told him about a challenge that I had during my previous intership at Q42. During this internship I was working on a VR application in Unity3D. The content that the user could view trough his VR goggle needed to be projected on the inside of a sphere so that you could view it 360. The problem was that the standard sphere, that Unity3D provided, was a spherified cube. This shape isn't ideal for VR application because the surface distance error caused some image artifacts near the poles. The ideal sphere for VR applications is a "icosahedron" where the triangles are distributed more evenly and thus has image artifacts to a lesser degree. So I needed to have an "icosahedron". Unity3D doesn't provide this in it's standard library so I needed to find one on the internet or make it with a program like Blender. I decided to simply Google it. This whas not very straight forward. I downloaded a free basketball shape and ripped the geometry from it to use for my sphere. And this let me thinking about why the process of getting a shape with a specific geometry is so hard. Why isn't there an online simple tool that let you make such a shape? The rest is history.