Posts Tagged ‘Random’

Random hopping

Saturday, January 29th, 2011
Random hopping

Two years ago or so, a friend of mine showed me a neat trick. The idea is very simple:

  1. Start of at a corner of an equilateral triangle
  2. Randomly choose any of the three corners
  3. Go half-way towards that corner
  4. Mark this spot
  5. Goto step 2 and do this until you’re sick

So if we do these steps a couple of times we end up with something like:
Simple Hopping
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Random point on a sphere

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Random point on a sphere

For a different project I needed a random point on a sphere, my first implementation was creating a random \phi and \theta and then calculate the coordinates as:

x=\cos(\theta)\sin(\phi) \\y=\sin(\theta)\sin(\phi) \\z=\cos(\phi)

It gives you random points on a sphere, however the distribution of the points is not constant. (more…)