updated 2018-11-28
Last things first I’m going to cut to the chase: I could not find a way to choose uniformly distributed random points inside the volume of a unit sphere that was faster than picking one in the 8-unit cube, testing to see if it was inside the unit-sphere, and trying again if it wasn’t – but I did come real close. But that’s getting ahead of myself. Before we come to the stunning conclusion, there are many rabbit holes and digressions awaiting.
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updated 2018-11-28
Last things first I’m going to cut to the chase: I could not find a way to choose uniformly distributed random points inside the volume of a unit sphere that was faster than picking one in the 8-unit cube, testing to see if it was inside the unit-sphere, and trying again if it wasn’t – but I did come real close. But that’s getting ahead of myself. Before we come to the stunning conclusion, there are many rabbit holes and digressions awaiting.
Read more →