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Marc Glisse wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 1 Oct 2010, srbehera wrote:
> 
>> 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?
> 
> Hello,
> 
> did you try replacing _in_ with _on_ in the name of the generator?
> (it is in the "See Also" section of the documentation of 
> Random_points_in_sphere_3)
> 
> -- 
> Marc Glisse
> 
> -- 
> 
Yes Random_points_on_sphere_3 is supposed to return points on the sphere 
But I tried the following syntax and it is returning points inside the
sphere

CGAL::Random_points_on_sphere_3<Point_3, Creator> gen(20);

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