Image of close packing of spheres, ray tracer screenshot
Alec Jacobson
November 09, 2009
Thought there's no point keeping this image to myself. I rather like. It's just a screenshot of my sphere packing ray-tracer applet taken on a big monitor connected to my new mac (I of course went fullscreen). Someday I'd like to let my CPU run at an even higher resolution picture (not bother with the video output, just save a file). When that day comes, I will surely post the results.
Anyway, here's a nice picture of close packed spheres with smaller spheres filling the voids between:
Update: I was thinking, also, it would be nice someday to add an opacity slider. It would be interesting to see the packing with translucent spheres...or maybe just really confusing.