Chris Benson
Sun, 17 Jun 2001 11:41:24 -0700
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 06:58:03PM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote: > 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. Neat question for a Sunday evening: I've been wondering about that for a while. > Best general treatment of this I've seen is at > http://www.math.niu.edu/~rusin/known-math/index/spheres.html > and that page also has a link to "Easy method for a fairly good point distribution " at http://www.math.niu.edu/~rusin/known-math/97/spherefaq An excellent site. -- Chris Benson