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  Re: Trace question  
From: tom
Date: 21 Oct 2005 20:35:01
Message: <web.435989224e074c266f9348f0@news.povray.org>
"Anthony D. Baye" <Sha### [at] spamnomorehotmailcom> wrote:
> I've been working with a tutorial on the trace() function in conjunction
> with a random placement macro.  I'm getting some great results, but I was
> wondering: Is there any way to make my macro take into account the objects
> it's already placed on the surface, such that there would not be any
> overlaps?  I'd like to be able to  have the objects pile up as more of them
> are generated.
>
> Regards,
>
> A.D.B.

That's a good idea. I keep thinking that there's a demo file included with
POV-Ray of alphabet blocks stacked up that might be useful to look at.


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