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28 Mar 2024 18:39:12 EDT (-0400)
  Re: 72 Antiblobs (120kB + 22kB)  
From: Tor Olav Kristensen
Date: 23 Aug 2000 13:35:08
Message: <39A40A19.D6F760C@online.no>
ddombrow wrote:

> Very impressive Tor!

Thank you !

> I would be interested to hear what you think insofar as practical uses for
> this macro ...

First of all I thought about a new way to make a soccer ball  =)

But then frog eggs and pavement stones also came to my mind.


> Might be interesting to see if you could use it to simulate
> deformations in the collision of objects, or other neat scientific stuff
> like that.

I'm sorry, but my macro does not attempt to model any forces
acting on the blobs. (So my macro can not make them move.)

It only does some calculations on how to modify each the blob
with negative strength components so that close blobs touches
each other at only one point.

(The positions, radii and strength of each blob has to be calculated
by some other code and then passed to my macro in arrays.)

But maybe it would be possible to use my macro with Chris
Huff's particle system patch to make fancy animations of blobs
colliding, being deformed, and then bouncing apart from each
other again.


Tor Olav
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mailto:tor### [at] hotmailcom
http://www.crosswinds.net/~tok/tokrays.html


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