> Alain wrote:
>> I suggest 3 options for your colliding flowers:
>>  - change the random seed.
>>  - slightly increase the spacing of the flowers. Just miltiply the 
>> horizontal locations by 1.03-1.05 before tracing.
>>  - add an exclusion cylinder centered around each flower, binded in an 
>> union. The cylinders radius will dictate the minimum distance between 
>> two flowers. You perform an insideness test on that union before you 
>> place a new flower.
>>
>>
>> Alain
>>
> 
> Option 1 may fix the currently colliding flowers, but may create new 
> collisions to take their place.
> 
> Option 3 is part of a solution I've got working in the back of my brain 
> (see my latest blog post on my website).  For most scenes in my movie, 
> the flowers will either be behind a wall of focal blur or zipping past 
> the camera fairly quickly, so I may not worry too much about collisions.
> 
> Thanks for the suggestions :)
> 
Effectively, in situations like those, you can afford to be lenient 
about collisions.
And, looking into some real world situations, there are cases of 
colliding flowers. The only thing is that the petals never intersect but 
pass between those of neiboring flowers.


Alain

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