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  Re: Object "center of mass" macro  
From: clipka
Date: 6 Sep 2009 03:43:26
Message: <4aa3681e$1@news.povray.org>
CShake schrieb:
> I did have in mind a few different ways of shooting rays, specifically 
> doing a sort of spherical shoot where theta and phi are the control 
> variables, but evenly distributing the rays around the surface (and 
> finding the volume of each 'chunk') would be a little more complicated. 

You could start from a platonic polyhedron as an approximation - a cube 
would be sufficiently "spherical" for this purpose I guess :-)


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