POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.animations : Order from chaos : Re: Order from chaos Server Time
5 Nov 2024 07:16:24 EST (-0500)
  Re: Order from chaos  
From: Paul Vanukoff
Date: 19 Jan 2000 14:18:21
Message: <38860dfd@news.povray.org>
"Spock" <spo### [at] homecom> wrote in message news:3885d048@news.povray.org...
> I told each bean that it loved the origin (linear force) but hated all
> the other beans (1/distance inverse force).  I gave them all random
> starting positions and random velocity vectors and started iterating.
>
> The result was a 1.3MB animated GIF, too big to post so I put it on
> my web page (http://members.home.net/spock19) instead. This is the
> last frame.  Looks like the beans decided to tessellate a sphere...

How is that done? Where you base new values in a frame based on values in
the previous frame? I can think of a few ways to do it, but what is the most
efficient or most widely used?  Nice anim, BTW.


--
Paul Vanukoff
van### [at] primenetcom


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