Question #691171 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/691171
Status: Answered => Open onyourself is still having a problem: Hi Jan, sorry for the late reply. > Do you want the directions to be random with uniform distribution, or just "some randomness" is ok? the former, random directions and uniform distribution. although i think the difference between both may be not much. > I check the links and this code is almost what i want. ######### def randomOrientation(): # most likely not very well random, but for this example it is ok from random import random as r return Quaternion((r(),r(),r()),2*pi*r()) # create loose spherical packing using makeCloud sp = yade.pack.SpherePack() mi,ma = (0,0,0),(20,20,20) nCyls,nSphs = 40,30 sp.makeCloud(mi,ma,rMean=2,rRelFuzz=.5,num=nCyls) # makeCloud for cylinders sp.makeCloud(mi,ma,rMean=1,rRelFuzz=.5,num=nSphs) # makeCloud for spheres for i,(pos,radius) in enumerate(sp): if i < nCyls: # add cylinder ori = randomOrientation() extents = (radius,.1*radius,.1*radius) O.bodies.append(box(pos,extents,ori)) else: # add sphere O.bodies.append(sphere(pos,radius)) ########## but there are still questions: 1)i try to increase the number of spheres and change cubic size, while error occurs "Exceeded 1000 tries to insert non-overlapping sphere to packing. Only 15 spheres were added, although you requested 500." and box turns out to be different sizes, i mean two kinds of size with big difference, nothing about relFuzz. 2)it seems that cylinders(box actually) take up the whole cubic space(depending on the longest edge) so that no sphere appears around the cylinder within cubic space, this is not what i want. i am still working on the "for" part of the code, its a little confusing to me. thanks a lot. xxxe -- You received this question notification because your team yade-users is an answer contact for Yade. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yade-users Post to : yade-users@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yade-users More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp