"Michael Andrews" <M.C### [at] readingacuk> wrote in message
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> Hi folks,
>
> I've been thinking point sampling (the thread on focal blur set me off),
> which led me to thinking about how to produce relatively evenly spaced
> points on a sphere, for any number of points.
>
> The image shows packed spheres of 80, 800 and 8000 small spheres. The
> method works pretty well except at the poles themselves.
>
> You can probably discern the method I've used from the pattern on the
> large sphere on the left, but if anyone wants the code I can post it.
>
> Bye for now,
> Mike Andrews.

I've seen this . . . This is the pattern nature uses for packing sunflower seeds
on . . erhm .. . sunflowers. Something to do with the Fibonacci sequence and the
golden ratio. I'd be interested in seeing the code.

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