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  • From: D Haley <>
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  • Subject: Re: [cgal-discuss] Random points on the sphere
  • Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 04:33:30 -0700 (PDT)
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Look at the bottom of the page
http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/geometry/spherepoints/

You just have to use a random phi (azimuthal angle), which is inverted to
take into account the shrinking line integral at any given angular altitude.

--- On Sat, 10/2/10, Daniel Duque
<>
wrote:

> From: Daniel Duque
> <>
> Subject: Re: [cgal-discuss] Random points on the sphere
> To:
>
> Date: Saturday, October 2, 2010, 8:49 PM
> El vie, 01-10-2010 a las 15:42 -0700,
> srbehera escribió:
> > Random_points_in_sphere_3 gives the points inside a
> sphere . Is there any
> > functions which returns the random points on the
> surface of shere?
>
>
> That's the problem of finding a random unit vector, a
> honorable one.
> Have a look here, and references therein:
>
> http://www.sklogwiki.org/SklogWiki/index.php/Random_vector_on_a_sphere
>
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