[R] points on a sphere

[Luke Hutchison]

On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 17:46, Richard Rowe wrote:
> Not an R question directly, but has anyone got a method for placing a 
> moderately large number of (near) equi-spaced points on a sphere?  I have a 
> nasty feeling platonic solids are needed for exact solutions and I'm 
> thinking of samplings involving around 200 - 1000 regularly-spaced points,

There's some C source for that here:

  http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/geometry/spherepoints/

Regards,
Luke Hutchison.


-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-
r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html
Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe"
(in the "body", not the subject !)  To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch
_._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._