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1 Jun 2024 04:59:44 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Stacking stones without overlapping  
From: Stephen
Date: 20 Jun 2017 17:18:42
Message: <59499132$1@news.povray.org>
On 6/20/2017 9:54 PM, Bald Eagle wrote:
> "Ari" <win### [at] yahoocomhk> wrote:
>> Hi, everyone.
>> I have been spending time searching on the internet and reading your guys'
>> information. However, I realized almost all of them required "some mathematical
>> background", especially Voronoi Diagram being shown the most frequently. I try
>> my best to understand them but I can't due to the lack of Maths background(I
>> only know some integration/sequence and differentiation from classes :( ). I
>> then try to work with an external program but I don't how to make use of it
>> well. (I installed the pyvoro in Python) So, I just went back to the basic now.
>> ( Damn, I am stupid! Just want to cry in a corner)
>
> I think you'll be fine.
> A lot of stuff was thrown at you all at once.
> Voronoi / Delaunay is NOT an easy thing to do from scratch - which is why Sam
> Benge used an external program to generate his data set.
> Pov-ray's crackle pattern is essentially a Voronoi diagram, and you can use it
> to make a pattern, or pass it to an isosurface as a function, to get "real 3d"
> shapes.
> I'd start with the spheres like you're doing, and then you can get a working
> scene, and practice with POV-Ray's SDL syntax, and programming logic.
>
>

You know the differences in our outlooks on this problem are quite 
philosophical. But this is not the time to go into it. There is no good 
reason to. It would only be confusing.

> No worries - it'll be ok   ;)
>

Yes it will be. :)



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Regards
     Stephen


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