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From: John VanSickle
Date: 16 May 2006 16:44:35
Message: <446a39b3$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:

> John VanSickle wrote:
> 
>> When faced with this problem, I usually take the easy way out and put 
>> them into rows and columns, with jitter to make it look random.
> 
> 
>   But as I said, I don't use any fakery. The location of every single
> sphere is calculated randomly accross the entire area. :)

Do you have problems with it turning into an O(n^2) problem, or is there 
some kind of shortcut to make things go faster?

Regards,
John


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