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6 Aug 2024 08:19:48 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Random but constrained vector  
From: Tom Melly
Date: 18 Apr 2002 04:39:10
Message: <3cbe862e$1@news.povray.org>
"Jan Walzer" <jan### [at] lzernet> wrote in message news:3cbdee24@news.povray.org...
>
> OK, given the vector:
>
>
> V:  |------------>
>     A            B
>
> I'd rotate first this vector V around
> any axis, that is perpendicular to V
> and goes through A. Here you can use
> any angle between 0 and 25 degree.
> Afterwards you rotate this new vector
> around the axis of the original vector V
> by any random angle ...

Makes sense - god, I'm dumb.

> BTW: Are you sure, that your given Cone


Ah - of course it doesn't. What was I thinking? Got it into my head the 4th
param was the angle, not the radius.


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