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Re: Location without DR
From: David Fleming
Date: 2018 Feb 19, 08:39 -0800
From: David Fleming
Date: 2018 Feb 19, 08:39 -0800
Ed,
You have the beginnings of a proceedure to randomize points on a sphere. Generate x,y,z triples in range +/- 1. Convert to spherical coordinate system. Exclude any triple with r>1. Set remaining points r=1 and the those points will be randomly distributed on surface of sphere unit radius.
DaveF
