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antikraft YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 7	Place shapes on sketch without intersection Aug 26th, 2009, 10:13am   Seems like an obvious solution must be there, but .... How do I place some circles on the sketch without any intersections?

ben_hem Senior Member Offline Posts: 399 CA, US	Re: Place shapes on sketch without intersection Reply #1 - Aug 26th, 2009, 10:23am   circles are touching iff  (distance between their midpoints) <= (sum of their radii) so if you're picking random locations, I'd say check against existing circles and try again while ( you hit that condition )

Cedric YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1838	Re: Place shapes on sketch without intersection Reply #2 - Aug 26th, 2009, 10:35am   if you have different shapes. maybe this post helps : http://processing.org/discourse/yabb2/?num=1233370178
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