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[Václav Šmilauer <eudoxos@xxxxxxxx>]

> This is a "must have", but unfortunately it is not so simple. Most
> clumps have overlapping spheres, and overlapped volumes should be
> counted only once. Here you will get spheresVolume>totalVolume, i.e.
> negative porosity....
It can be approximated via sampling the affected volume, though it is
not trivial to make it efficient for larger number of particles (you'd
have to use bboxes somehow).