POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.binaries.animations: Particle Algorithms: Re: Particle Algorithms

POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.animations : Particle Algorithms : Re: Particle Algorithms		Server Time 20 Jul 2024 07:13:25 EDT (-0400)

From: Rune
Date: 9 Dec 2001 09:25:52
Message: <3c137470@news.povray.org>

"Mahalis" wrote:
> Couldn't you add the radius value in all directions
> (or at least some of them) and see if any radii touch
> the obstacle?

If you're referring to the method JRG describes, then yes, I could do that,
but it would make the calculations at least 5 times slower and still not
produce very accurate results.

Rune
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