POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.binaries.images: Re: Random points on surface of an object (in advanced-users): Re: Random points on surface of an object (in advanced-users)

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From: Tim Attwood
Date: 20 Feb 2007 05:52:21
Message: <45dad2e5@news.povray.org>

This works sorta, but you need to know the spline,
and it isn't a very good distribution on the sharp bends.

#declare rsd = seed(1);
union {
#local c = 0;
#while (c<500)
   object{Thorn
   rotate 360*rand(rsd)*z
   Spline_Trans(Stem, rand(rsd), y, 0.01, 0.01)
   }
   #local c = c + 1;
#end
}

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