From lim@rani.chem.yale.edu  Sun Dec  6 14:52:25 1992
From: Dongchul Lim <lim@rani.chem.yale.edu>
Message-Id: <9212070052.AA25740@rani.chem.yale.edu>
Subject: Re: Distribution of Points on a Sphere (from the poster)
To: chemistry@ccl.net (Computational Chemistry)
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 92 19:52:25 EST


lim writes:
> 1. the numbe of points per unit surface area of a sphere (i.e.,
>    density) must be constant.
> 2. these points must be randomly located.
> 

These two things sound the same, but to get a random distribution
with the same density regardless of the radius of a sphere, these
two conditions are necessary, I think.
-DCL