So, here's a version which required half an hour parsing, 46.000 cylinders
and 1000 spheres in a blob. Note that of the half hour, some times was
needed to first generate the particles and remove some due to steepness of
surface etc. The results of those presteps can (and were) saved to disk and
can be easily accessed for tweaking just the final step.

The result wasn't as good as I expected, there are still stalagmites
found... I'll reprocess the particles and tweak the parameters to see if I
can get a better version of this. But generally, such things are to be
expected with miniscule detail and discrete sampling. I imagine combining
image 1 (where the smallest branches have been left out) with a sampling of
positions without the stacking-algorithm might give much better results.

Regards,
Tim

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