Michael Andrews wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
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>  [Image]
I tweaked my geodesic code to do a similar thing.  It can't do any
number of points, but it looks good.

-- 
Dan Johnson 

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