5 Jun
2007
5 Jun
'07
9:28 p.m.
2007/6/5, Lewis Hyatt <lhyatt@princeton.edu>:
Henrik Sundberg wrote:
The result ought to be more dense at the poles.
The posted trig method is correct, it chooses a horizontal cutting plane uniformly. You can show that the surface area of a sphere contained between two z-coordinates only depends on the difference between the two coordinates, not their location, so this generates the correct distribution.
Aah, sorry for the noise! /$