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  Re: repeat an object with different scaling and position  
From: Jim Holsenback
Date: 14 Mar 2007 14:16:34
Message: <45f84a12@news.povray.org>
"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message 
news:45f83330@news.povray.org...
> Nikolaj K. Holm <hej### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>> I have an object - a sphere - which I want to have repeated at different
>> sizes and at different positions to simulate bubbles in water. I got the
>> water and a single bubble looking the way I want but is there a simpler 
>> way
>> to repeat this object making the scale and position changing at random?
>
>  Could you please specify if the problem you are having is copying
> objects in general, or just creating some formula which places objects
> randomly according to a certain pattern?

sounds like he described it pretty clear to me so that's why I pointed him 
at the thread you helped me with ..... part of that code has a little dither 
routine that scales, rotates, and then places it randomly in a given area 
.... just take out the stuff about trace

Jim


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