Analytically exact spiral scheme for generating uniformly distributed points on the unit sphere

Journal of Computational Science

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 88-91

  Koay, Cheng Guan ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytically exact spiral scheme; Deterministic scheme; Fixed point formula; Uniform distribution on sphere

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICALLY EXACT SPIRAL SCHEME; BIOMEDICAL IMAGING; DETERMINISTIC SCHEME; ELECTROSTATIC POTENTIALS; ELECTROSTATIC REPULSION; FIXED-POINT FORMULA; GOLD STANDARDS; INITIAL SOLUTION; POINT SET; RANDOM PERTURBATIONS; SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; THOMSON; THOMSON PROBLEM; UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION; UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION ON SPHERE;

ELECTROSTATICS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTIMIZATION;

SPHERES;

EID: 79953126608     PISSN: 18777503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocs.2010.12.003     Document Type: Article

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