"Tim Nikias v2.0" <#macro timnikias (@) #local = "gmx.net" #end> wrote:
....
> That aside, what sort of collision-avoidance did you implement? There are a
> variety of methods, but 9 hours for 3500 objects seems like a rather high
> parsing time...
>

I have no experience at all with collision avoidance methods and just did
the first thing that came to mind.  Doubtless it is hideously inefficient.
I just calculated the distance from each newly generated location to each
of the previous ones...   I can already think of a couple of ways to
improve on it.  I didn't even exit the loop as soon as a failure was
detected and just continued on checking all the previous locations!  haha.
If you have some information on different algorithms for this sort of thing
I'd be happy to see them.

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> I've attached a revised image with darker colors for your comment.  I'm
> unsure of the newsgroup etiquette (if any) that may apply regarding posting
> of images in replies.  Let me know if this practice is contrary to some such
> rule.  Thanks.

There's normally no problem with posting images in replies. Your images 
are a bit large, though. Perhaps scaling them a bit smaller next time 
would be a good idea :)

I like the stronger colors better, too, BTW :)

Florian

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Vaya con Huevos!

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Among other things, Jim Charter wrote:

> Isn't that Spanish slang?

Not really slang, just "many eggs".

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9/4-z*4}light_source{-9*z,1}union{box{.9-z.1+x clipped_by{plane{2+y-4*x
0}}}box{z-y-.1.1+z}box{-.1.1+x}box{.1z-.1}pigment{rgb<.8.2,1>}}//Jellby

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Jellby <jel### [at] M-yahoocom> wrote:
> Among other things, Jim Charter wrote:
>
> > Isn't that Spanish slang?
>
> Not really slang, just "many eggs".
>
> --
>

I believe 'huevos' is a commonly used slang expression for testicles, and
that Jim is referring to that usage.

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"Jellby" <jel### [at] M-yahoocom> wrote in message
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> Among other things, Jim Charter wrote:
>
> > Isn't that Spanish slang?
>
> Not really slang, just "many eggs".

Vaya con dios,  Go with god.
Vaya con huevos, "go with eggs".

One could say Vaya con Cojones, but it wouldn't be funny.

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Sun Tzu wrote:

> I was inspired by Andrew C's Easter post so I decided to make some eggs.
> This is my first try at randomly placing a large number (3500) of objects
> with a rudimentary test to avoid intersecting objects.  It ran last night on
> a 2 GHz Pentium:  8 hours 45 minutes parse, 38 minutes trace.

Very gloopy! :-)

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>> "Rafal 'Raf256' Maj" <spa### [at] raf256com> wrote in message

<snip />

 >>Too wash-out colors.


Sun Tzu wrote:
 >
> I intentionaly made the colors 'pastel', but perhaps you're right that it
> would look better with more brilliant colors.  Fortunately I wrote out the
> xyz locations and gross sizes of the eggs to a txt file so I could try
> different things without lengthy re-parse.
> 
> I've attached a revised image with darker colors for your comment.  I'm
> unsure of the newsgroup etiquette (if any) that may apply regarding posting
> of images in replies.  Let me know if this practice is contrary to some such
> rule.  Thanks.


I actually liked the first one better :-) It had a more light feeling. 
Maybe more saturation?

A quick note on etiquette: usually we post after a paragraph to match 
the natural order of reading (posting above is called "top posting". I 
took this particular post and reformatted; note that Rafal's response is 
first, then your response, and finally mine at the bottom. That way, the 
reader doesn't have to "scan up" the page. I also snipped out anything 
that wasn't relevant to the replies by using some sort of "snip" indicator.

This is, unfortunately, something we all tend to learn from tactless, 
frustrated newsgroup nazi losers who have nothing better to do. You're a 
lucky one to get me! :-)

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SunTzu2 wrote:

> Jellby <jel### [at] M-yahoocom> wrote:
> 
>>Among other things, Jim Charter wrote:
>>
>>>Isn't that Spanish slang?
>>
>>Not really slang, just "many eggs".
>>
> I believe 'huevos' is a commonly used slang expression for testicles, and
> that Jim is referring to that usage.

I thought that was cahones (sp?)!

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Dave VanHorn wrote:

> "Jellby" <jel### [at] M-yahoocom> wrote in message
> news:407f0b01@news.povray.org...
> 
>>Among other things, Jim Charter wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Isn't that Spanish slang?
>>
>>Not really slang, just "many eggs".
> 
> 
> Vaya con dios,  Go with god.
> Vaya con huevos, "go with eggs".
> 
> One could say Vaya con Cojones, but it wouldn't be funny.

Unless the person who heard it just got a sex change.

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Dan P
http://<broken link>

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