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On Friday 28 November 2008, Mueller, Juergen-Joachim wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> does anybody know a program to
> fill an unit cell a,b,c randomly by an arbitrary number
> of spheres (atoms)?

First you would need to define "random".
 Uniform density throughout the lattice?
 Uniform distribution of neighbor-neighbor distances?
 Uniform fractional coodinates?
 Must the placement conform to space group symmetry?

It is probably impossible to satisfy all of the above jointly.

-- 
Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742