A similar question was asked recently (1st March) in p.general under
"Sphere/polyherdon question" (sic). Conclusions reached were the same as
here (random allocation, electrostatic repulsion) but there was also some
discussion about some other algorithms if you're interested.

-Chris




"Christian Grieger" <chr### [at] triplexde> wrote in message
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> Hi there,
>
>
> I've got a little problem: i want to arrange a number of little
> spheres (or dots) on the surface of a big sphere. The tricky thing
> is that they should have all the same distance to each other.
> Is there a mathematical algorithm to calculate the 3d vectors
> for these dots?
>
>
> thanks,
> Christian Grieger

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