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  Re: Even distribution on a sphere  
From: Tom & Lu Melly
Date: 18 Oct 2002 14:58:10
Message: <3db059c2@news.povray.org>
"Christopher James Huff" <chr### [at] maccom> wrote in message
news:chr### [at] netplexaussieorg...

> But...stars aren't evenly distributed. A random distribution would be
> closer to reality.

I *think* you've misunderstood - it's avoiding the clumping of distribution
at the poles that I'm trying to avoid. Of course the random numbers are
evenly distributed - it's just that when you use them to rotate z, then y,
you tend to get clumping at the top and bottom.


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