Roger Burton West
Sun, 17 Jun 2001 10:35:31 -0700
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 06:52:04PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: >Ok, now how can you distribute N points around the origin in _3_ dimensions, >again all of them at the same distance from the origin? Obviously >there will be an imaginary sphere again, but where do you put the points. Best general treatment of this I've seen is at http://www.math.niu.edu/~rusin/known-math/index/spheres.html which has the summary: * "uniformly distributed" has more than one meaning; * for most n there is no answer which is particularly elegant; * quick-and-dirty approximations are easy. R