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4 Aug 2024 06:13:36 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Help: Place objects within a circle  
From: Marc Champagne
Date: 13 Sep 2003 13:29:00
Message: <Xns93F588C083D6POVMIKA@204.213.191.226>
Kurts <kur### [at] yahoofr> wrote in
news:kur### [at] netplexaussieorg: 

>   waht about that :
> 
>   #declare alea = seed(a_number);
>   #declare rotAngle = 360*rand(alea);
> 
>   #declare objet = sphere {
>     <xVal, 0, 0>
>     radius
>     rotate rotAngle*y
>     }

That was my general idea, but it has a flaw, as Slime has pointed out in
another reply. 

If you saw the other replies, you can give them a try also.

>> They should have had POV in school, it would of given me a reason to
>> remember my trigonometry. :) 
> 
>   no trigo need for the moment.

Any other ...metry for that matter :)

Thanks

-- 
Marc Champagne
marcch.AT.videotron.DOT.ca
Montreal, CANADA


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