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  Re: Distributing spheres of differnent sizes...  
From: Michael Andrews
Date: 7 Jan 2000 14:14:30
Message: <38763AB7.3FF8E3@reading.ac.uk>
Adam Coffman wrote:
> 
> The really nice neck picture in binaries.images shows that my previous
> answer wasn't quite what you had in mind.  My formula was for spheres
> which are just touching each other, instead of overlapping.
> 

Yeah, so was mine! I was thinking 'string of beads' rather than
'spheresweep'.

> So, I tried the problem again, this time assuming instead that the
> distance between the centers was proportional to the radius, and that
> the first and last radii were given.  I got the same answer as your
> post to binaries.scene-files!
> 
> Adam C.
> 

I haven't looked at the posted code yet, but I've done similar things
for blob-splines. Oh well, back to designing isosurfaces ...

Bye for now,
	Mike Andrews.


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