I don't know if anyone has heard this tale, but it runs more or like this way:
A biologist was studing a (semi-spherical) cave where bats lives. He fell asleep in the cave, and he woke up in the middle of the night. Half-dreaming, he thought that he was outside, because glow-worms were living in the walls, and they looked like stars. However, he noticed that, unlike a real sky, these "stars" had no _pattern_: there were no recognized images like The Cross, a Scorpion, The Hunter, etc. When he woke up, he conjectured that the reason we _can_ see patterns in the real sky is that the stars are randomly distributed, while the glow-worms tried to keep a distance to each other. My question: what is the best way to generate a glow-worm-like distribution? I imagine that using a Latin Hypercube would leave too many holes in the (x,y) plane. Alberto Monteiro ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
