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From: Samuel Benge
Subject: circle_place.exe for Windows
Date: 24 Aug 2010 19:25:01
Message: <web.4c7453bd99210acbf151112e0@news.povray.org>
Hi,

Here's a program for generating sets of non-overlapping circles. They will be
saved to an .inc file in the form of a 1D array of 3D vectors. It's not 100%
accurate, but you can change the accuracy to such a high level that it's hard to
tell. There are several other options available to change the outcome. Support
for using an input image to determine the circle sizes is also included, as are
some scene files for viewing the result.

Just unzip the file and run circle_place.exe. Make sure to save the points
before running the example scenes. What you do with it is your problem :)

Happy Raytracing!

Sam

P.S. I'm not sure if this will work on other platforms, but you can always
try...


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From: Samuel Benge
Subject: Re: circle_place.exe for Windows
Date: 24 Aug 2010 21:00:01
Message: <web.4c7468d76a2d1fbdd2539a90@news.povray.org>
Well, I'm not proud to admit it, but there was a pretty serious bug in that last
version. If the two size settings were similar, the program would simply quit.
Here's a fixed version.

Sam


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From: Dre
Subject: Re: circle_place.exe for Windows
Date: 24 Aug 2010 22:55:06
Message: <4c74860a@news.povray.org>
"Samuel Benge" <stb### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message 
news:web.4c7468d76a2d1fbdd2539a90@news.povray.org...
> Well, I'm not proud to admit it, but there was a pretty serious bug in 
> that last
> version. If the two size settings were similar, the program would simply 
> quit.
> Here's a fixed version.
>
> Sam
>

When I try and run this under Windows XP SP3 it gives me an error:

"This application has failed to start because SDL.dll was not found"

I had to download that file seperately to get it to work, works well though, 
thanks!

Cheers Dre


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From: stbenge
Subject: Re: circle_place.exe for Windows
Date: 25 Aug 2010 12:36:49
Message: <4c7546a1$1@news.povray.org>
Dre wrote:
> "Samuel Benge" <stb### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message 
> news:web.4c7468d76a2d1fbdd2539a90@news.povray.org...
>> Well, I'm not proud to admit it, but there was a pretty serious bug in 
>> that last
>> version. If the two size settings were similar, the program would simply 
>> quit.
>> Here's a fixed version.
>>
>> Sam
>>
> 
> When I try and run this under Windows XP SP3 it gives me an error:
> 
> "This application has failed to start because SDL.dll was not found"

I was afraid of that! I thought it was compiled into CRM32Pro, but I 
guess I was wrong :(

> I had to download that file seperately to get it to work, works well though, 
> thanks!

Cool! You're welcome :)


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From: Samuel Benge
Subject: Re: circle_place.exe for Windows
Date: 25 Aug 2010 13:00:00
Message: <web.4c754acc6a2d1fbde691a85d0@news.povray.org>
Sorry I didn't include sdl.dll! Here are some places you can find it:

 http://www.libsdl.org/download-1.2.php
 http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?sdl

Some professional developer I'd make :P


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From: Samuel Benge
Subject: Re: circle_place.exe for Windows
Date: 25 Aug 2010 13:40:00
Message: <web.4c7554aa6a2d1fbddb6dfed40@news.povray.org>
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention in the readme that to determine the final circle
radii in POV (so you can know what the size of your objects will be), the
calculation is: circle size/grid size. Then you just multiply that by your
height_field's size or whatever.

Sam


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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Re: circle_place.exe for Windows
Date: 28 Aug 2010 03:11:08
Message: <4c78b68c$1@news.povray.org>
I am - again - deeply impressed, Sam. A major and very useful contribution 
to the community and so simple to use.

Thank you!

Thomas


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From: stbenge
Subject: Re: circle_place.exe for Windows
Date: 28 Aug 2010 13:55:40
Message: <4c794d9c$1@news.povray.org>
Thomas de Groot wrote:
> I am - again - deeply impressed, Sam. A major and very useful contribution 
> to the community and so simple to use.
> 
> Thank you!

You're welcome, Thomas. Thank you for the kind words  :)

Sam


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