Analytically exact spiral scheme for generating uniformly distributed points on the unit sphere
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Analytically exact spiral scheme for generating uniformly distributed points on the unit sphere
The problem of constructing a set of uniformly-distributed points on the surface of a sphere, also known as the Thomson problem, has a long and interesting history, which dates back to J.J. Thomson in 1904. A particular variant of the Thomson problem that is of great importance to biomedical imaging is that of generating a nearly uniform distribution of points on the sphere via a deterministic ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Computational Science
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1877-7503
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocs.2010.12.003