From: rusin@washington.math.niu.edu (Dave Rusin)
Newsgroups: sci.math
Subject: Re: Q: How to uniformly distribute n points on surface of sphere
Date: 8 Feb 1995 05:55:44 GMT

In article <3h99uh$s9@news.halcyon.com>,
John A. Clouse <johnc@halycon.com> wrote:
>Problem:  I need a formula that will provide the co-ordinates for n points
>uniformly distributed on the surface of a sphere in R3.

Ha! I knew this would come in handy. I've already collected answers to
a half-dozen questions of this type; this poor fellow's about to get
the whole 41K file mailed to him. 

Those who were about to follow up to this person's post might wish to
check out a copy of the answers I've already collected; I think I've
got all the answers in there that usually get posted. I'd be happy to
fold in improvements since I estimate another poster will ask this
question in less than one month.

Get the file via gopher or ftp or with your WWW browser from
	URL: //math.niu.edu/papers/Rusin/spheres/
(the main file is called sphere.faq). As always I can email if the
other services are not available to you.

dave