My unfinished attempt at an organic-elastic blob in a zero-gravity instance.

If anyone can help me figure out how to seal up the little gaps in my Cartesian sphere equation, I would greatly appreciate it! They are the only things stopping me from putting in a texture which would make it look gorgeous.

ENTER turns on smoothing and will slow down the fastest of machines.
CLICKING shows points only, for fastest performance.
Mouse movement applies force.

http://rdwong.net/archive/jellyBall.zip

this here works a bit better, but there are still some gaps left.

hope this helps a little... but i think there is a better way to solve it, which i haven't found yet...

cheers
j.



i added the "res" after PI


for (float i = 0; i <= PI; i += res) {
   beginShape();
   xRadius = radius - force + force*cos(i + r);
   yRadius = radius - force + force*sin(i - r);
   zRadius = radius - force + force*cos(i - r);
   
   for (float j = 0; j <= PI+res; j += res)
   {
     x = xRadius * sin(i) * cos(j) + xCenter;
     y = yRadius * sin(i) * sin(j) + yCenter;
     z = zRadius * cos(i) + zCenter;
     
     if (showVectors) {
       pushStyle();
       stroke(255, 126);
       point(x, y, z);
       popStyle();
     } else {
       
       
      vertex(x, y, z);
     

     }
   }
   
   for (float j = 0; j <= PI + res; j += res) {
     x = xRadius * sin(i - res) * cos(PI - j) + xCenter;
     y = yRadius * sin(i - res) * sin(PI - j) + yCenter;
     z = zRadius * cos(i - res) + zCenter;

Hey I tried you sketch. There is lots of artifacts. Are the polygons wrong or is this intentional effect?