Greg M. Johnson wrote:

> There's an algorithm for uniformly placing objects on a sphere.  I've
> pasted
> it below with apologies as I don't know from whom I originally got it. 
> The question is:

nice

> 
> Does anyone know of an algorithmic way to determine which are the nearest
> neighbors to any particular point?
> Does anyone know of another, close-enough algorithm that would have a more
> straightforward way of determining this?

Maybe building Voronoi cells or a nearest-neighbour tree with the points.

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