Timeline for How to sample points uniformly over a region of the unit sphere
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| May 27, 2022 at 14:30 | answer | added | Stéphane Laurent | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 27, 2022 at 0:55 | comment | added | ZR Han | Uniformly sample over the sphere, and then reject the samples outside your desired region. | |
| May 25, 2022 at 1:28 | comment | added | Biswajit Banerjee | Details are given in Brannon's book on rotations: iopscience.iop.org/book/978-0-7503-1454-1/chapter/… | |
| May 24, 2022 at 21:54 | comment | added | Maxim Umansky | If we want the points to be uniformly distributed on the surface, it is not the polar angle $\phi$ that should be uniformly distributed but $\cos(\phi)$. | |
| May 24, 2022 at 21:00 | comment | added | David Leonardo Ramos | The only thing missing was performing a rotation afterwards to the north pole case. Check math.stackexchange.com/questions/56784/… for more details | |
| May 24, 2022 at 20:57 | history | edited | David Leonardo Ramos | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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