August/September 2017 Challenge: O'Gray's Pearls

[Mouse]

Aw thank you, Red

I think I may be on the brink of working out the projected grid.... sort of.... graphically rather than mathematically, that is

[Ilanthar]

Bubble universe(s) ? This is fun !
Very promising start, Mouse.

[Mouse]

I got a headache trying to work out where the axis intersected the skin of the sphere I couldn't see, so I cheated and imported a skeleton sphere I made in Sketchup and rendered in isometric view (parallel perspective).

So, even though it doesn't look all that helpful, this is the 'grid' I'll be basing all my spherical maps on... in...

[Mouse]

Bubble universe(s) ? This is fun !
Very promising start, Mouse.

Thank you, Ilanthar

I've never been so confused about mixed perspectives in all my life! LOL!

[Diamond]

Urgggg.... math make Diamond head hurt bad...

But I'm sure you'll work it out to your satisfaction and that it will be glorious.

[Mouse]

Mathematical hangover?

Mouse recommends a stiff drink after math

Thanks again, D - I'm already puzzling my way through the first draft.

[Tonnichiwa]

Yeah, math and I don't get along at all. I feel like the character Gizzit the Gobbo from my map thread whenever I try to do math.

But this does look promising. I have a feeling I have no chance in this competition..lol

[Mouse]

Thanks, Tony

LOL! That's funny. I feel like I'm way out of my depth with this one, and I've simply no idea what to do next. I know what I want it to look like. Its just the 'getting it there' bit that's floored me for the moment

[Wingshaw]

Mouse, you're British, surely it should be mathS? This is going to look spectacular, I think. Although shouldn't the thread be renamed to Ogrit's orbs?

Wingshaw

[Mouse]

Thank you, Wingshaw

I haven't decided what to call it yet, but there's still plenty of time. I might have to do a sort of mid-thread restart with a better name for everything and a better back story

As for Math(s)...

If this was only a national website based in the UK, I would have said 'maths', but its not, and I'm generally very easy going about English/American vocabulary differences since I once had an American boyfriend. Even if I hadn't, who am I to argue with an entire country about the particular spelling of a word just because they say it differently to the way wot I was learned to say it

EDIT: Anyway - the US/UK differences are absolutely nothing at all, when you consider that "Put wood in'toil, lass" is just as good as "Shut the door, girl" without going anywhere outside the UK