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  Re: Surface of antiblobs (52KB)  
From: David Fontaine
Date: 29 Aug 2000 01:51:09
Message: <39AB4D1D.3242673F@faricy.net>
Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:

> David Fontaine wrote:
>
> > Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:
> >
> > > Now I just have to figure out how to make these
> > > blobs centres distribute evenly within this
> > > surface (or any surface in 3D) ...
> >
> > Sounds extremely hard.
>
> I hope not !
>
> I have an idea of simulating some kind of forces between
> the blob centres (that are close enough to each other),
> and then let many iterations move them in small steps at
> the time (within the surface) until all the forces on each
> blob sums to a force that is normal to the surface (where
> the blob's centre is).

Oh, that's right... every problem has a complicated (and possibly
complex) calculus solution and a 10-hour-parse solution. And then some
have a complicated vector math solution that takes ten hours to parse.

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