PoD wrote:
> I was playing around with generating geometric shapes using random 
> numbers constrained by certain conditions.
> 
> This one uses the following algorithm
> 
> start with a point in space
> while n < some_number
>   add plus or minus one to one of x,y or z
>   if the new point is within a certain volume ( in this case, near 
> the             surface of a sphere)
>   add the new point and a cylinder connecting this and the previous
>     point

Do you have other constraints - like the number of times a point may be 
visited? It would be interesting to see if it could fill much of the 
volume if you only let it visit each point once.

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