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20 Jul 2024 21:24:31 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Order from chaos  
From: omniVERSE
Date: 19 Jan 2000 11:20:39
Message: <3885e457@news.povray.org>
Very aptly named.  The continued rotations on their axes after settling down is
interesting, made me think of magnetic alignment still occuring.
Would bet this could get pretty neat if there were slightly different forces for
each, clumps and scatter perhaps?

Bob

"Spock" <spo### [at] homecom> wrote in message news:3885d048@news.povray.org...
> I told each bean that it loved the origin (linear force) but hated all
> the other beans (1/distance inverse force).  I gave them all random
> starting positions and random velocity vectors and started iterating.
>
> The result was a 1.3MB animated GIF, too big to post so I put it on
> my web page (http://members.home.net/spock19) instead. This is the
> last frame.  Looks like the beans decided to tessellate a sphere...
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