This sphere is an approximate convex hull of 200 cospherical points. During its construction, every computation was randomly perturbed by a number between -0.01 and 0.01. Despite the perturbations, all pairs of neighboring facets are convex. This demonstrates that the program, Qhull, can handle arbitrary amounts of round-off error.
Each approximate facet consists of an inner plane and an outer plane. The outer planes are above all of the points (red-yellow lines) while the inner planes are below the vertices (white spheres). The exact convex hull lies between the inner and outer planes.
How to make it:
rbox 200 s B1 | qhull C-0 Qc R0.01 Gpav >a
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