Tholian Web Question...

[publiusr]

I nver thought of a sphere, but some construct

Interesting:
https://www.pinterest.com/emma1093/geometric-shape/
http://vakarangi.blogspot.com/2013/10/lua-o-milu-tholian-web.html
https://theses.lib.vt.edu/theses/av...5/unrestricted/ChadRMillerETDdissertation.pdf

 

[MGagen]

When I made my Tholian Web recreations, I came to the same conclusion. The web couldn't have been a sphere. I interpreted it as a cube and oriented it "standing on it's point." You can see and edge bend in the background in this image:

As an exercise, I put the Enterprise directly in the center of the forming cube and looked to see how close I could get to the onscreen images with a carefully selected vantage point.

 

[trekshark]

I always figured something along the lines of a D20 or D12

 

[Christopher]

I always figured something along the lines of a D20 or D12

A D20 is an icosahedron, which is the shape they apparently did use in "In a Mirror, Darkly." A D12/dodecahedron is made of pentagonal faces, though, and I don't think there's any way to break those down into triangles.

 

[geotrek]

Very interesting.