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 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