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  Re: A bowl of rice  
From: John T  Millstead
Date: 21 May 1998 16:21:49
Message: <35648CDD.6C8B4FD2@mckinleycapital.com>
Thanks so much.  It put me on the right track.  It's always nice to
learn something new.

John




> John T. Millstead <jmi### [at] mckinleycapitalcom> wrote:
> : Any ideas on how to make a lot of rice to fill a bowl?   I made an
> : individual grain of rice, but it seems silly to have to translate it
> a
> : thousand times by hand.



> Nieminen Mika wrote:   If you know which function defines the inner
> surface of the bowl (for
> example if it's a spherical surface it's really easy) you can use a
> #while loop and position thousands of rice grains with the rand
> function
> inside the bowl with the function that defines it (I don't know if you
>
> understood... my english is not very good :) )
>


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