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From: David Parrott
Date: 18 Feb 2003 12:28:26
Message: <kbT4uLAe6hU+Iwt2@quayles1.demon.co.uk>
In article <Xns### [at] 204213191226>, Zio
Pera <fiz### [at] lombardiacomit> writes
>A few days ago (feb 9, i think) there was a thread about placing point
>evenly on a sphere. 
>
>Starting from the URL supplyed in that threat, and with a little C++
>hacking, i've made a simple tool that generate a geode with an arbitrary
>number of nodes. 
>
>The nodes are placed using an electrostatic-repulsion algorithm; here
>are an example with 120 points. 
>
>If someone is interested, I'll post the C++ source code and a win32
>executable on an appropriate group (maybe povray.binaries.utility ?). 

I would be interested in the source, and also if you could post the URL
again, I can't find the original thread here.

Cheers
-- 
David Parrott


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