Hi Taco, On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Taco Hoekwater <t...@elvenkind.com> wrote: > Zhichu Chen wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I want to draw some paths that won't intersect with each other >> in metapost. Those paths are generated "randomly," e.g., draw >> 100 circles without any intersections. I use a very stupid >> way like: > > I am probably missing something, because the fastest way to > draw 100 non-intersecting paths is just by having them in > a grid. You don't seem to want that, so: what do you want, > exactly? (be warned that "marble fill" is pretty hard).
Nice to have your attention. Those paths are not meant to be somewhere and they appear randomly. Like one path can have a neighbor very close to it and another path may be not so close to any of the other ones. Basically, they are not organized, they can't form a lattice. What I want exactly is how to determine if there's anything on some region of the picture. I need this to test if the random point I picked is useful. I don't think putting them in a grid is what I want. That'll just make those objects look like they are sorted and kind of like it's a fake picture which is generated intentionally. I hope I haven't make you even more confused. > > Best wishes, > Taco > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to > the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > -- Best Regards Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------- Zhi-chu Chen | Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility No. 2019 | Jialuo Rd. | Jiading | Shanghai | P.R. China tel: 086 21 5955 3405 | zhichu.chen.googlepages.com | www.sinap.ac.cn ---------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
