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2 Oct 2024 12:24:40 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Randomly packed cubes (40k)  
From: ryan constantine
Date: 26 May 2000 02:35:53
Message: <392E1C25.2C0D8B9D@yahoo.com>
didn't someone make an explosion inc file where a solid object was
separated into parts as if it was exploding?  your pic looks like it was
all one multicolored cube that exploded.  could your code be used for
explosions somehow?  anyhow, nice pic.

David Fontaine wrote:
> 
> Okay, here's 450 cubes packed into a cubical area. Each time a cube is
> generated it is checked for intersection with other cubes. Every
> consecutive time a cube is found to intersect the failure rate is
> incremented, if it reaches a threshold the algorithm assumes the space
> is full (in this case 30).
> 
> Each cube has a random:
> size (0.2-1, evenly distributed),
> rotation (evenly distributed),
> HLS color (hue 120-270, evenly distributed,
>    lightness .25-.75, sinusoidal distribution favoring middle values,
>    saturation .5-1, quadratic distribution favoring higher values),
> surface normal (part crackle, bumps, wrinkles, even distribution)
> 
> parse 6m34s render 1m12s total 7m46s
> total mem 3,307,666 bytes
> 
> --
> David Fontaine     <dav### [at] faricynet>     ICQ 55354965
> Please visit my website: http://www.faricy.net/~davidf/
> 
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>  [Image]


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