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4 Aug 2024 02:20:04 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Help with a spherical container  
From: Alain
Date: 5 Nov 2003 10:49:07
Message: <Xns942A6E102A455Caelum@204.213.191.226>
Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in news:3fa90775@news.povray.org:

> Alain <noe### [at] onca> wrote:
>> But, given that a sphere will have a higher concentration of points
>> near the center, I thought you might prefer to place them inversely 
>> proportional to the distance from the center.
> 
>   I think that the idea was to place random points *evenly* inside the
> sphere. Making a higher concentration near the center kind of defies
> this goal.
> 

Yeah, that's not the intention.  I guess this is distributing randomly, but 
radially.  Oh well, it was just an idea.  The first equation will simply 
radially distribute more points towards the outside of the sphere.


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