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  Re: How to distribute points equally on sqhere surface?  
From: Markus Becker
Date: 16 Jul 1999 07:20:52
Message: <378F16C5.D9F1E603@zess.uni-siegen.de>
Remco de Korte wrote:
> 
> I have been wondering about a solution for this some time ago.
> I think your strategy is brilliant (in the way that it makes me say: why didn't
> _I_ thin of that? ;-)) but I think POV will parse on this forever. You'll
> probably need an external program to do the calculations.
> Anybody?

I had the idea and wrote a small C-program to do that and export
the found points to POV-speres. Bottom line: it just doesn't work,
because the spheres "fall" into some local energy minimum and
make nice patterns, but for most values for N, they are far from
being equally spaced.

Markus
-- 

 Ich nicht eine Sekunde!!!" H. Heinol in Val Thorens


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