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Re: messy electrostatics



In a private message YYY replied:

Sounds to me like it [the program] would spend a lot of time
trying bad configurations. How about emulating Mother Nature
by cycling through the list of charges, moving each one a little
in the direction of the net force it feels from all the others.
Repeat until the (tangential) forces are small.

A good suggestion. Perhaps only one random change after
every five force-driven changes. In that way one would not be
trapped by a local minimum. And a book keeping subroutine
to prevent repetitions of already rejected configurations.

Ludwik Kowalski