Xplo Eristotle wrote:

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> Because of the random nature of the code and the need to test against 
> every other tree when placing a new one,

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A more recursive, fractal approach might help cull the amount of trees 
you need to test against. How a "plasma" fractal is created might help 
you build the algorithm:

http://www2.vo.lu/homepages/phahn/fractals/plasma.htm

I think the "wrinkles" pattern in POV-Ray is a 3D representation of a 
plasma fractal (probabally uses a Gaussian (bell-curve) Distribution as 
well because I don't see "pyramids" in the pattern. Perhaps the POV-Ray 
code might help generate some ideas on this too?

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Respectfully,
Dan P
http://<broken link>

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