... So I hacked together a bit of code to generate asteroids as a mesh of smooth trianlges. The code has an odd history , it was written about a year ago, I gave it to a load of other people and then somehow managed to lose my copy of it. I finally managed to get back a modified copy of it which was then hacked back into shape to get it to work under GCC (and fix a couple of bugs which my friend had introduced). ... The asteroid I created has a long axis 1.5 times longer than the other axes. ...