POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Star night sky : Re: Star night sky Server Time
9 Aug 2024 09:00:48 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Star night sky  
From: Tom Melly
Date: 29 Sep 2000 11:54:26
Message: <39d4bb32$1@news.povray.org>
"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
news:39d4b63c@news.povray.org...
>   This is exactly the mistake made in the original code.
>   That doesn't distribute the points evenly. There will be more spheres
> near the z-axis than elsewhere.

... because 10 spheres placed at <0,10, 0> and rotated randomly around z =
10 spheres in random x, y locations, but 10 spheres placed at <0,0,10> and
rotated randomly around z = 10 spheres at <0,0,10>? (Tom runs off to check
some code that's been giving him unexpected results).


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