Talk:Evenly distributed points on sphere
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the spirals
The spiral code as shown makes for crowding at the poles; I prefer to put a node in the middle of each latitude-band. Besides which I just noticed that the golden section code as shown gives only negative z! I was hesitating to replace the code but I will now hesitate no more. My code is more efficient anyway (fewer divisions). —Tamfang 04:31, 26 September 2007 (EDT)
I wonder whether the last method shown would be slightly better with
dlong := 2*p*pi/q
where p and q are Fibonacci numbers (two apart in the sequence) and q≥N. —Tamfang 01:55, 3 May 2008 (EDT)
Electrostatic Repulsion Method
The link to Jon Leech's code is broken. Does someone have an alternative place to link to this? Firegryphon 15:17, 7 October 2009 (EDT)
- hm, looks like it may have been broken for quite a long time! A casual search does not turn up Leech's current whereabouts. I'm cutting his two links. —Tamfang 17:29, 7 October 2009 (EDT)
Where is Jon Leech?
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- Jon Leech developed code to solve the electron problem. It is available at
See his README file for more information. His distribution includes sample output files for various n < 300, which may be used off-the-shelf if that is all you need.
- A simple example of tesselation by subdivision is available at
