"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:


> Along those lines, you could build an array to store coordinates, "scan" the
> bounding box of the figure with an x-y-z nested loop and inside(object, vector)
> tests, and then use the pseudorandom selection process to pick known inside()
> points.
> The advantage there is that you could save the array to disk, and not have to
> test the same figure every single time you wanted to place objects.  You
> wouldn't even need to load the mesh for the figure either.

So, I managed to get this to work, and it seems like it gives fairly decent
coverage.
I think if I find the time, (and I'm reminded of this to-do item) I might try to
figure out a way to use a spline to give greater probability of selecting the
smaller volumes and less probability of selecting the larger volumes, resulting
in a more even distribution.

Meet ... Jack.  :D

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