I would firstly do it by eye to get the rough positions of the spheres done, then I'd use the attributes panel for each object to numerically position things (just requires a bit of basic math). If you don't like the math method, I'd go for ICM's idea.

EDIT - like Aldaron said oops

Message edited on: 11/10/2004 19:08

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