POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.newusers : Uniform placing sphere : Re: Uniform placing sphere Server Time
31 Jul 2024 00:32:17 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Uniform placing sphere  
From: Warp
Date: 20 Apr 2003 13:46:16
Message: <3ea2dce8@news.povray.org>
Micha Riser <mri### [at] gmxnet> wrote:
> make random points in the cube <-1,-1,-1>,<1,1,1> and if their 
> distance from origin is <1 project them on the sphere otherwise throw them 
> away

  He asked points *on* a sphere, not *in* a sphere... :)

-- 
#macro M(A,N,D,L)plane{-z,-9pigment{mandel L*9translate N color_map{[0rgb x]
[1rgb 9]}scale<D,D*3D>*1e3}rotate y*A*8}#end M(-3<1.206434.28623>70,7)M(
-1<.7438.1795>1,20)M(1<.77595.13699>30,20)M(3<.75923.07145>80,99)// - Warp -


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