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28 Jul 2024 12:23:31 EDT (-0400)
  Re: sampling points on surface  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 17 Oct 2001 08:59:42
Message: <3BCD80C6.C81CCDB5@gmx.de>
Mael wrote:
> 
> hmm yes , but i m pretty sure bad situations will arise, for points near the
> edge of a cube for instance
> 

As i understood the paper, these problems can be avoided by always using
the same distance for calculating the diffusion term instead of using the
individual distance of each sample.  It also says this is likely to
produce some inaccuracy but it seems to work quite well.

Christoph

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