Remco de Korte wrote:
> 
> But, to come to my actual reply: the problem with the local minimum is something
> that has been bothering me too. I think it has something to do with the points
> being on a sphere. There should be workarounds, but as I said, I abandoned it
> for now. I think someone will come up with a brilliant solution one of these
> days.

The problem is, that there is only a solution for some speacial
values of N (ie. magic numbers...). For all other values of N
this is simply impossible. You can always minimize some energy
balance, even a global one, but don't expect to be able to
distribute the points evenly on a sphere.

Markus
-- 

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

Post a reply to this message