Ron Parker <ron### [at] povrayorg> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 04:49:39 -0500, Sir Charles W. Shults III wrote:
> >     What you end up with is something that looks like the crackle pattern-
throw
> > some random points on a plane, set a boundary condition mathematically, and
draw
> > the polygons.
>
> I would hope so, as the crackle pattern (using the default form, metric,
> etc.) is exactly that: a Voronoi diagram in 3-space.

   Yes, that is what the next paragraph in my post says:

    If you extend the idea to 3 dimensional space, you end up with space filling
"polytopes" instead of flat polygons.  All you need is a volume with a
scattering of random points through it and a tessellating algorithm.

Cheers!

Chip Shults
My robotics, space and CGI web page - http://home.cfl.rr.com/aichip

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