Well, I want to stack them but in a non-orderly way, what I want is a 
real messy heap of cylinders. I'll probably have to figure it out by 
myself. Thanks anyway.

JC

Dave Matthews wrote:
> JC (Exether) wrote:
> 
>>I'd like to do a scene with a heap of objects (cylinders in my case). I
>>don't want a physically accurate stacking of the objects, but I'd like
>>it to look realistic from a fair distance.
>>
>>After thinking a bit about an algorithm I thought that it was not a very
>>easy problem. I had a look at the stacker*.pov scenes from pov distrib
>>but it is not really the same problem as all objects are put
>>horizontally in the example. The internet doesn't provide much more stuff.
>>
>>Soooo .... You see where I'm getting right ??
>>
>>Does anyone know of such tool (preferably a pov-script) that would do
>>what I seek ??
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>JC
>>
> 
> 
> I think that Sputnik's reply in this thread:
> 
> http://news.povray.org/povray.advanced-users/32657/
> 
> may be something like what you're seeking.  I've made quite a bit of use of
> his ideas -- modified slightly for my own needs.
> 
> Dave Matthews
>

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