In most modern literature, a Boolean model is a probabilistic model of continuum percolation theory characterized by the existence of a stationary
point process 
and a random variable 
which independently
determine the centers and the random radii
of a collection of closed balls in 
for some 
.
In this case, the model is said to be driven by 
.
Worth noting is that the most intuitive ideas about constructing a feasible model using 
and 
often lead to unexpected and undesirable
results (Meester and Roy 1996). For that reason, some more sophisticated machinery
and quite a bit of care is needed to translate from the language of 
and 
into a reasonable model of continuum percolation. The formal
construction is as follows.
Let 
be a stationary point process as discussed above and suppose that 
is defined on a probability
space 
.
Next, define the space 
to be the product space
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and define associated to 
the usual product sigma-algebra and product
measure 
where here, all the marginal probabilities
are given by some probability measure 
on 
. Finally, define 
, equip 
with the product measure 
and usual product 
-algebra. Under this construction, a Boolean model is a
measurable mapping from 
into 
defined by
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where here, 
denotes the set of all counting measures on the 
-algebra 
of Borel sets in 
which assign finite measure
to all bounded Borel sets
and which assign values of at most 1 to points 
.
One then transitions to percolation by first defining the collection of so-called binary cubes of order 
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for all