Markus Becker wrote:
> 
> 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

Is that so? I'm willing to believe it, but I wonder if there's some way to prove
that or make it acceptable for a mathematician (which I'm most definitely not).

Groeten,

Remco

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