To generate uniformly-distributed random points on a flat plane, just draw two uniformly-distributed floats for your two coordinates. You don't have to do anything special, which is why the library doesn't provide anything for this. The reason uniform_on_sphere exists is because that problem does not have a trivial solution. -Gabe

On 01/25/2013 05:57 PM, Danny wrote:

I am trying to use a boost random generator to make random points uniformly distributed over a plane surface. In the the following link, the code for doing it in a single dimension is available:

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Is there any distribution type available to use it in two dimensions? (I have seen boost::uniform_on_sphere, but it is for spherical surfaces.)

In case of a plane, what speaks against using two uniformly distributed floats in range [0 1] as UV parameters in your plane? That should give uniformly distributed points in the plane, or am I missing something here? Norbert