How can we plot a convex shape $C$ in the $3$-dimensional Euclidean space, whose boundary $\partial C$ is formed by portions of six different spheres, one portion per sphere? The radius of each sphere is the same, $a+1$, and the coordinates of six spheres centers are $(a,0,0), (-a,0,0), (0,a,0), (0,-a,0), (0,0,a), (0,0,-a)$, where the parameter $a$ is a non negative real number. Hence, each sphere passes through one and only one of the following points for $a>0$:
$(1,0,0), (-1,0,0), (0,1,0), (0,-1,0), (0,0,1), (0,0,-1)$.
Finally, for each of such points $\mathbf{p}$, the portion of the sphere $S_{\mathbf{p}}$ passing through it consists of all points of $S_{\mathbf{p}}$ whose distance from $\mathbf{p}$ is smaller than the distance between $\mathbf{p}$ and any point of the other five spheres.
Note that for $a=0$, $C$ is the sphere with unit radius centered at the origin. As $a$ grows we have a shape always lying in $[-1,1]^3$, where the Gaussian curvature is the same at any point of $C$ is everywhere the same (and larger than the unit sphere as $a$ grows). For $a\to\infty$, we have the cube $[-1,1]^3$. Hence, this convex shape can be viewed as a continuous transformation from the unit sphere to its bounding box $[-1,1]^3$.
